Salmon into Tasmania. £85 



in 1853 taken up and acted upon extensively and most 

 successfully by the Municipality of Perth in Scotland, in 

 which body certain rights pertaining to the fisheries in the 

 Tay River there are vested. 



7. The ample experience obtained by the persons employed 

 at these large establishments, by Mr* Shaw of Drumlanrig, 

 and by Mr. Young of Invershin, and at other establishments 

 of minor importance at home^ renders it unnecessary for the 

 Sub-Committee to hazard any remarks upon the mode of 

 procuring and shipping Salmon spawn, fry, or smolt, or of 

 their management on board ship, otherwise than as they 

 may be affected by the conditions of the voyage itself, 

 through varying temperature, &c., to this Colony. 



8. The Sub-Committee think that, were the Colonial 

 Government to enter into a correspondence on the subject 

 with the Burgh Magistrates of Perth, a thoroughly experi- 

 enced and trustworthy person might by their means be 

 engaged to take charge of and conduct any piscicultural 

 station and operations which it may be necessary to maintain 

 in this Colony for a year or two. It is accordingly suggested 

 that it be a recommendation from the Eoyal Society to the 

 Colonial Government to open communication with the Town 

 Council of Perth, and to solicit such aid as they may be 

 able to afford, as well in the selection of one or two active, 

 intelligent, and well-behaved men of experience from the 

 number of their eniploi^es, as in all the details of procuring 

 and preparing spawn duly fecundated, or young fish, with 

 suitable boxes, &c., to meet the exigencies of the long 

 voyage and its changing climatic conditions. 



9. The Sub-Committee do not suppose that any difiiculty 

 would be experienced in finding-, by this mode of procedure, 

 men practically acquainted with the artificial propagation 

 of fish, who would be perfectly willing to make an agreement 

 to enter and continue in the service of the Government or of 

 an association organized here for the purpose of carrying out 

 the project, during a period of three years, — a term which 

 would afibrd ample time to test its practicability, and, pro- 

 bably, to diffuse the breed of Salmon over many of the rivers 

 of Tasmania. 



