| Northern NSW floods trigger mass fish kill with hundreds of thousands lining riverbanks, beaches | |
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Credit: ABC Rural: Kim Honan |
Fishermen have lost homes to the floods, nets and traps have been swept away, and now their livelihood is washing up dead on riverbanks and beaches along the New South Wales North Coast. |
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Day by day the industry is counting the cost — financial and emotional — as the flooding disaster turns into an ecological one.
OzFish Unlimited chief executive Craig Copeland estimates hundreds of thousands of fish have been killed in the Richmond River alone. |
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