64 Salmon at the Antipodes. 



in the best condition, and Victoria and New 

 South Wales would benefit pretty equally on 

 each bank of the river ; while the fishing in 

 the Murrumbidgee, on one side of the border, 

 would balance that in the Goulburn on the 

 other. Should the Darling waters become 

 stocked with this fish, the preponderance of 

 advantages would rest with New South 

 Wales. 



If this proposal be adopted no time should 

 be lost, as, from the present abundance of 

 fish in the Sacramento river, ova can be 

 procured in any quantity, and the United 

 States Fisheries Commission are most ready 

 and willing to share with other nations the 

 immense advantages which they enjoy, in the 

 abundance of fish of the best kinds with which 

 their lakes and rivers are stocked. Should the 

 fish soon become scarce, which is very pro- 

 bable, and the Fisheries Commission be obliged 

 to retain all the ova procurable for increasing 

 the supply in their own rivers, it is possible 

 that great difficulty might be experienced in 

 obtaining a large quantity of ova for a purpose 

 of this kind. 



But, it may be said, why not wait the result 



