New Fish Kill in Murray-Darling Basin as Emergency Meeting Called in Canberra

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

The NSW Department of Primary Industries said on Jan. 15 there has been another fish kill at the NSW-Victorian border at Lake Hume.

The department announced that some 1,800 fish had died at Lake Hume, which is part of the Murray River system, and that the cause of the mass deaths is so far unknown, according to AAP.