Hurry Save The Murray!

James Carlton of Radio National Breakfast Summer reports:

In years gone past, Lake Albert in South Australia’s lower lakes would have been a playground for anglers and boaties at this time of the year. Instead it’s limping towards a slow death and a dubious status as an environmental disaster. A government-funded fishing cull which collected 95 tonnes of mainly European carp has finished, after declining lake levels made the waters unnavigable. Several hundred tonnes of fish are now slowly dying and all are expected to be dead by late February, creating a rotting stench which will also be a health hazard.

Listen to his guest, introduced as Professor Diane Bell, River, Lakes and Coorong Action Group retired professor of anthropology from George Washington University and a visiting professor in the School of Social Sciences at Flinders University [sic] discuss the matter. [Correct re GWU but Diane is actually "Writer and Editor in Residence" at Flinders and "Visiting Professor" at Adelaide University.]