Menindee fish kill: NSW water minister says he's 'not downplaying' latest deaths

Niall Blair says deaths are like nothing 'we've ever seen in the state before' while touring Lower Darling River site

The New South Wales primary industries minister, Niall Blair, has admitted that "we've seen nothing like this" while touring the site of another massive fish death in the Lower Darling River at Menindee.

The mass death incident in the Lower Darling, the third in a month, has left stretches of the Lower Darling upstream from Menindee covered in a carpet of dead fish.