Potential for a big fish kill at coroboree billabong

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Re: Potential for a big fish kill at coroboree billabong

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thats a terrible smell too.hope it doesnt happen out there its an awesome place .was out at one of our great river system s two night s ago and that smell was right thru the system .we landed one fish early but new something was not right with the water


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Back in the boat already??
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Be a sight rolling into town with 6 tagged fish...
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60K would buy a good filtration system :D

I'm surprised there haven't been any reported kills yet with the heat and no real rain. Water got to 33.9 out in the harbour a week and a bit ago. Could only imagine the temps out there.
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Yep.... :?
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I've seen an aircraft similar to that flying low over the floodplain on the east side of Sampan. It flew quite low over Sampan as we were heading home.

I suspect it is simply spraying for weeds.
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Yes, the "renegade pilot" chasing an MDF tag theory is highly unlikely.

Nonetheless, it would be good to know what they are spraying around the waterways.
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They'd be spraying mimosa on the Mary floodplains. The only 2 chemicals they apply from the air are Metsufuron Methyl and Starane. I haven't heard of either of these being responsible for fish kills before but you never know
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Yep, plane was spraying mimosa ...
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