THE SALMON FAMILY 73 
and every now and then he is induced to take the 
“worm.’? It is possible that the movements of the fly 
and the worms, once having arrested the attention of 
the salmon, remind him of some many limbed crustacean 
in the sea: 
I stated at the beginning of the chapter that attempts 
to introduce the Atlantic salmon into Australian waters 
had failed in consequence of the fact that when the fish 
went to sea they never again returned. 
Another attempt is now being made, and recently 
my friend, Mr. Richmond, of the Surrey Trout Farm 
and United Fisheries Company, has sent out one million 
salmon eggs to the Antipodes. Mr. Richmond gave me 
such an interesting account of how the eggs were col- 
lected and dispatched that I will try and reproduce it 
as far as possible in his own words. 
It is no easy task to collect and transmit in a single 
consignment, one million salmoneggs. The first difficulty 
is that all the eggs have to be collected about the same 
time, or those collected at an earlier date would be 
hatching out before the eggs collected at a later date 
were ready to start on their long journey. 
In our capricious English climate the movements of 
salmon are extremely uncertain; snow may chill the 
water and stop the fish travelling up, or droughts may 
prevent them ascending the rapids. Finally, it may be 
impossible to net the fish on account of continued floods. 
The egg of the salmon is about the size of a large 
pea; it is translucent and usually of a deep cornelian 
