English Salmon m Australia. 137 



Their appearance reminded me forcibly of my 

 unfortunate shipment of 100,000 eggs by the 

 Durham, from which only five fish were 

 hatched. 



It may be remarked that I should not 

 "look a gift horse in the mouth," but it is 

 only at the end of a long voyage that defects 

 in the mode of sending fish ova can be seen 

 and pointed out ; and it is for the benefit of 

 all who are interested in pisciculture that the 

 actual facts should be made known, so that 

 errors may be discovered and avoided in 

 future. Whether the American pisciculturists 

 are more experienced, or the American salmon 

 ova are less delicate, there is no doubt that 

 the Americans have been more successful in 

 their shipments of ova, and that our English 

 friends may learn something from them as to 

 the modus operandi which has given such 

 satisfactory results. From the Californian 

 ova being usually on the point of hatching on 

 their reaching Melbourne, it is evident that 

 the hatching process is advanced to a certain 

 stage before they are shipped, which enables 

 them to stand the voyage better, and gives 

 the opportunity of rejecting before shipment 



