The picture below is an indication of the failure to ensure the ecological health of the Murray-Darling Basin. This is dead baby carp washed up on the beach of Petrel Cove, that is west of the Murray Mouth.
The dead carp are from a flooded River Murray— the great flood in 2022. This provided ideal conditions for a massive and prolonged breeding event for carp, one of our most ubiquitous feral species.
It indicates that restoring health to the Basin’s rivers is more complex than reining in the water extracted by farmers and making sure that the environment gets the water it needs.
Nourishing Terrains 
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