Millions of dead and rotting fish have clogged a vast stretch of river near a remote town in the Australian outback as a searing heatwave sweeps through the region.
Videos posted to social media showed boats ploughing through a blanket of dead fish smothering the water, with the surface barely visible underneath.
"It's horrific really, there's dead fish as far as you can see," Menindee local Graeme McCrabb told AFP. "These fish deaths are related to low oxygen levels in the water as flood waters recede," the government said in a statement. Previous fish kills at Menindee -- about 12 hours' drive west of Sydney -- have been blamed on a lack of water in the river due to prolonged drought, and a toxic algal bloom that stretched over 40 kilometres .State government fisheries spokesman Cameron Lay said it was "confronting" to see the river choked by dead fish.
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