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Drought adds threat to fish stocks

Posted in: 1999, NSW Tags: 1999, acids, agriculture, aquaculture, computer modelling, droughts, environment, fish, NSW, oceans, pyrite, rivers, soils

320 tonnes of acid spills into river- Ben Wilson Research into acid-producing soils along major rivers in northern NSW has illustrated the threat posed by Mother Nature, not only sugar cane farmers, on fish stocks in the region, according to Dr Ben Wilson from Charles Sturt University.