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past season, if not before, begun to make 

 their nests and deposit their spawn in the 

 Plenty, and we have now some of their 

 produce in our ponds ! One of the fish that 

 had thus returned to propagate its species 

 in its native water I saw myself before 

 leaving Tasmania in August last. It then 

 weighed 20 lbs., but as it had parted with 

 nearly all its ova, it may be set down as a 

 fish of at least 25 lbs. It was quickly re- 

 placed on its spawning bed in the Plenty, in 

 close proximity to the ponds, from which it 

 had been gently removed in a landing net 

 and where it finished its operations. One 

 attendant male fish, that I did not see, was 

 afterwards weighed, and found to be about 

 18 lbs. 



" With the salmon breeding in the Plenty, 

 so admirably fitted for the purpose, abun- 

 dance of ova and young fish may hereafter 

 be obtained for stocking speedily all the 

 livers in Tasmania. I hope to have some- 

 thing further of interest to communicate to 



