XV.— O'/i the Introduction of Salmon into Tasmania. 



BEPORT of a Sub-Committee appointed at the February- 

 Monthly Meeting of the Royal Society, to consider the 

 questions submitted in the note of the Kon. the Colonial 

 Secretary of the 9th of February, 1858, relative to the 

 Introduction of Salmon into Tasmania, and the pay- 

 ment of the Parliamentary Reward of £500, 



Members: — Hon. E. S. P. Bedford, Esq., M.L.C. 

 J. W. Agnew, Esq., M.D. 

 Morton Allport, Esq. 

 Joseph Milligan, Esq., F.L.S., Sec, R.S.T. 



£500. — " Conditii>ns on which the money would 

 be paid : — viz. If Spawn be introduced, whether that 

 should be the sole condition?" 



1. Upon this the opinion of the Sub-Committee is, — 

 that the mere introduction of Spawn, even though properly 

 fecundated, and in a state of vitality, ought not of itself 

 to entitle the person introducing it to any portion of the 

 reward; 



2. The Sub- Committee consider that the £500 ought 

 only to be paid upon delivery in the Colony, to persons duly 

 authorized, of not less than five hundred living Salmon fry 

 three months at least after their escape from the ova, or of 

 not less than two hundred and fifty of Salmon smolt, alive 

 and healthy, or of five pairs of full-grown male and female 

 Salmon, — that is, of fish which have visited the salt-water, 

 whether grilse or older. 



3. The Sub-Committee think that the introduction of a 

 smaller number of healthy living fry of Salmon, or of healthy 

 smolt, should entitle the importer to a proportionate amount 

 of the reward ; always providing that no claim exceeding 

 half the amount specified in each case in the following scale 

 should be recognized on any delivery of fry less than three 

 months old, whatever their number or condition mav be. 



