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eminently favourable to this member of the 

 family, and it may fairly be presumed that 

 they are equally so to the others, although 

 the journey to the sea is a risk to which the 

 salmon has probably been exposed. 



" From a private letter we learn that a 

 gentleman, fishing one day a vs^eek for eight 

 weeks in the river Plenty (Tasmania), 

 brought to basket thirty trout, averaging 

 Ij lbs. (among them one of 7 lbs.), all of them 

 being bright fish, in fine condition. If the 

 Tasmanian waters wiU yield such trout 

 fishing within a few years, the angler of the 

 future will surely have cause to rejoice. 



" We cannot know at present whether 

 this shipment of salmon ova to New Zealand 

 will within a few years produce fresh-run 

 fish ; but vpith a favourable climate we have 

 at least the first elements of success, and, 

 whatever be the result, the thanks of all 

 interested in angHng, as well as in the 

 scientific aspect of the experiment, are due 

 to those gentlemen who have taken so much 

 pains to bring it to a successful issue." 



The result of this shipment was that 



