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Labor’s environment spokesman, Tony Burke, has been reading the interim independent report released by the government this afternoon on the Menindee Lakes fish kill.

The report says the panel found no evidence a risk assessment was done at weir 32 before the fish kill, despite “a likely blue-green algal event being identified in the WaterNSW Lower Darling operations plan over the 15 months prior to the fish death events occurring”.

The panel has made 20 recommendations, including that there be an investigation to identify sites where mass deaths of fish might occur in future.

But Burke has suggested there is not enough focus in the report on the long-term problems in the country’s largest river system.

“I’m working through the report and the recommendations but on the face of it none of them involve more water, which is pretty important for fish,” he said.