Thousands of dead fish and other aquatic animals have washed ashore across the NSW Northern Rivers as floodwaters surge ...

Blackwater is the likely cause of a fish kill that has occurred in the Richmond River, at Ballina following ex-cyclone Alfred ...

The tourist hub of Ballina on the northern New South Wales coast is grappling with the overwhelming stench of significant ...

Fish habitat charity OzFish, said fish have been seen gasping for air as well as dead, in the Northern Rivers and Mid North ...

The flooding that resulted from Tropical Cyclone Alfred has led to fish kills in the Richmond River and nearby waterways.

Messages and images of fish gasping for air or already killed were sent to the fish habitat charity by locals overnight, likely caused by 'blackwater': oxygen-low flood runoff from Ex-Cyclone Alfred.

Mass fish kills have struck in the West Ballina canals, Ballina’s riverbanks, Gawandii Beach and Shaws Bay, according to the ...

Curator and manager of the Ballina Naval and Maritime Museum, Ron Creber, said the area around Ballina and Byron Bay were shipwreck graveyards, and The Comet could be the first of many to be uncovered ...

People are being urged to help track the extent of a fish kill in a region hit hard by ex-tropical cyclone Alfred.

Mr Creber said The Comet was around 50 or 60 tonnes, and was a single-masted sloop, possibly used on the river for trading or as a tug for bringing large boats into Ballina's Richmond River.

Ballina Shire Council has attributed the pungent problem to recent floods caused by the cyclone, which have severely affected water quality in the Richmond River and nearby waterways. A log jam on ...