240 Salmon at the Antipodes. 



Mining operations having now all but ceased 

 on these streams, their waters are bright, 

 clear, cold, and rapid, and they are free from 

 all enemies to the young salmon. 



One thousand salmon fry were sent to the 

 Hopkins river, near Warrnambool, by sea, and 

 were taken there by Mr. Hickling. In his 

 report be says :■ — " I got down with the fish 

 very successfully, and liberated them in ex- 

 cellent condition in the Cudgee Creek. I am 

 sure they will do well, as the temperature (on 

 27th December) was only 57 deg., and — dry 

 as it is — there is now a splendid stream of the 

 purest water. The temperature of the Hopkins 

 was 64 deg. — no doubt cooler in the shady 

 pools and shallows — but this was after the 

 great heat of Saturday ; however, the fish did 

 not appear to be at all inconvenienced by the 

 change from the cool tank to the warmer 

 river. I am confident they will be heard of 

 again." 



In distributing the young salmon, it was 

 not found convenient to delay the fish so 

 as to count carefully the large number sent 

 off at once — in one case 8000 ; but the 

 number was estimated approximately by 



