Australian Politician Vomits After Witnessing Mass Fish Kill in Darling River

Stills from a Facebook video highlighting mass fish deaths in the Darling River in Mendinee, NSW, Australia. Hundreds of thousands of fish died in the Darling river over the weekend of Jan. 5-6, 2019, the second such incident in the same area over three weeks. Rob Gregory and Tolarno Station via Storyful

An independent MP was forced to rush off-camera to vomit after he held a dead fish while visiting the Darling River in the small town Menindee in far west New South Wales.

NSW independent MP Jeremy Buckingham personally visited Menindee on Jan. 10 to highlight the mass fish deaths that had occurred in the river system. Earlier in the week on Jan. 7, a video that was posted to Facebook by local farmers of the carcasses of hundreds of thousands of native Murray cod went viral, highlighting the environmental catastrophe that was unfolding in the region.