ioo FISHES I HAVE KNOWN 



date refrigerating chambers. Brisbane, too, has a 

 good market in connection with Geddes & Co.'s 

 freezing-works. 



The piscine resources of the Island Continent 

 have now been recognised and developed ; fisheries 

 are officially preserved and encouraged ; the use 

 of ice has enabled the fisherman to bring in his 

 catch in excellent condition from distant grounds ; 

 while choice fish from other countries have been 

 acclimatised and widely distributed. 



Certain districts of Australia have become 

 anglers' paradises, and fishing has developed into 

 a perfect craze with Australians ; and if an epicure, 

 dining at a good hotel or restaurant, is not satisfied 

 with the fish course, he must be hard to please. 



Australian visitors to London often complain, 

 not only of the dearness of fish, but of its insipidity, 

 comparing it unfavourably with their own Murray 

 cod, schnapper, mullet, ceratodus (lung-fish, or 

 Queensland salmon), barracouta, and the excellent 

 Tasmanian trumpeter, which combines the best 

 qualities of sea and fresh-water piscines. Person- 

 ally, I prefer this fish to any other I have tasted ; 

 but in Australia all the foregoing are of necessity 

 eaten perfectly fresh, since they will not keep, even 

 if refrigerated, but rapidly decay. 



Australians maintain, and with reason, that our 



