Central Victorians fear fish kill is imminent as Greens Lake reaches shallow depths
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European carp dead in the water and on the banks on Tuesday.
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A fish kill at a lake at Corop in Central Victoria is worrying residents and visitors who fear a larger one may be on the horizon.
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Nearby residents, anglers and an MP fears there will be fish kill at Greens Lake
The lake was decommissioned as a water storage basin eight years ago and is 22 per cent full
Water testing shows the quality is good and the Victorian Government says a fish kill is very unlikely
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Northern Basin enters new year still in drought
Much of the northern Basin is beginning 2021 with little reprieve from its prolonged dry period. This is despite drought-breaking rain in other parts of the Murray–Darling Basin over the past couple of months.
The MDBA head of River Management, Andrew Reynolds, said the whole of the Queensland part of the Basin remained drought declared, and northern and far-west regions of New South Wales were still waiting for significant rainfall to help replenish their river systems.
“The northern Basin’s water storage levels have started the year lower than we’d hoped, despite the influence of La Niña,” Mr Reynolds said.
Environmental water flow reaches wetland triggering big breeding event for rare, endangered bitterns
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An Australian little bittern chick sits with an unhatched egg in the Yanga National Park.
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A bittern breeding boom in a New South Wales Riverina wetlands is being heralded as a significant step forward for the secretive water bird species.
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Environmental water is being heralded as the catalyst for the breeding event
Up to 350 gigalitres of environmental water is likely to be made available for the Murrumbidgee Valley in 2021
Last week, during a research trip to Yanga National Park on the Lowbidgee floodplain near Balranald, wildlife ecologist Matt Herring discovered the nests and live chicks of both the endangered Australasian bittern and the near-threatened Australian little bittern.