BY P. S. SEAGER. I7 



per Norfolk, and were slaipped in an ice-house on board the 

 ship Lincohishire, which sailed from England on 8th Februar}', 

 186t5, arriving in Hobson's Bay, 30th April, 1866, where the 

 boxes were transhipped to the Government steamer Victoria, 

 with the ice remaining, and sent to Hobart, which was reached 

 on 4th May, and on the following day the ova were all placed 

 in the hatching boxes at the Plenty, it being estimated that 

 50 per cent were alive. The hatching was complete on 30th 

 June, the first salmon ova having hatched on 8th May, 1866, 

 and the first sea trout on 12th May, 1866. In October, 1867* 

 it was determined to liberate the young salmon and sea trout 

 as they had assumed the small form, and they were permitted 

 to pass into the Plenty. In the Commissioners' report, dated 

 2nd September, 1869, the numbers liberated are stated to have 

 been nearly 6,000 salmon and 000 salmon trout. A few pairs 

 of sea trout were detained as a breeding stock. 



For many years subsecjuently to this date the work of 

 acclimatising trout and salmon trout was carried on at the 

 breeding ponds with great success as to trout, but with only 

 modified success as to salmon trout, which spawned for the 

 first time in Tasmania in fresh water, without having been 

 to the sea, in June, 1869, as after a few years it was found 

 that although the few salmon trout detained, and their 

 increase, continued to deposit ova, their fertility ceased and at 

 last the fish were liberated. 



But in 1882, a Royal Commission having been appointed 

 to enquii'c into and I'eport upon the fisheries of the colony, 

 it was recommended by that body that further importations 

 of salmon ova should be procured. Parliament acting upon 

 their recommendation provided the necessary funds, and the 

 Hon J. W. Agnew, a member of the Salmon Commission visit- 

 ing Europe in 1882, was entrusted by his brother Commis- 

 sioners with the uncontrolled direction of a further shipment of 

 salmon ova. Dr. Agnew, from various causes, was unable to 

 carry this object to completion, but ho was able to correspond 

 ■with and to visit Mr. J. A. Youl and Mr. T. F. Brady, whose 

 co-operation he secui'ed, and those gentlemen, with the assist- 

 ance of Mr. Eichard Philpott, Merchant, of 3, Abchurch 

 Lane, London, were afterwards appointed a Committee of 

 Management to conduct the next shipment, the latter gentle- 

 man acting in finance and the two former in packing and 

 collecting the ova. Through the co-operation of li. L. Moore, 

 Esq., Molennan, Londonderry, 11. J. Mahony, Esq., Dromoro 

 Castle, County Kerry, and Samuel L. Alexander, Esq., Roo 

 Park, Limavady County, Londonderry, Mr. Brady was 

 enabled, with the assistance of his son Mr. Herbert Brady, 

 and Mr. Nevin, head-keeper to Mr. Moore, to secure upwards 

 of 80,0C0 ova, ^'I'csented by these gentlemen thi-ough Mr. 



