Updated on Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 10:53AM by stevem

On Friday 10th I got a call from 7 local news about the fish kill, we travelled to a property at the foot of the weir, where we found hundreds of dead and rotting Bass averaging 1-2 kg , along the banks and hundreds floating in the river. On Monday we joined a local commercial fisho who took us downstream from the bridge where he set his net and due to the abundance of the bass, we got 55 in the first 5 minutes. The fisho told us that it is illegal for him to net them, but he wants them out of the river as they will all die and cause a huge impact , and they will eat all of the juvenile fish stocks, he guestimated that their could be several tonnes of them, as he had been getting 200-400 kg hauls.

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