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Fish, yabbies and aquatic life dead after ‘toxic’ herbicide treatment in irrigation channel
Mal Johnson is not happy. The Cohuna farmer has spent the past few days cleaning up dead fish and plants from an irrigation channel on his property in northern Victoria.
Key points:
- The herbicide Acrolein was put into the water to kill weeds blocking the channel
- Cohuna farmer Mal Johnson said it has caused a major fish kill
- Murray Goulburn Water said it had no other option but to use herbicide
“I walked up onto the channel bank, looked into the water and there was just a foot-wide stream of fish, all dead,” Mr Johnson said.
The Torrumbarry Irrigation Channel was injected this week with the toxic herbicide Acrolein to get rid of weeds that are blocking up the system that provides water to more than 100 farming properties in the region.
“I’ve…
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