APPENDIX. 187 



TASMANIA, 1866. 



IMPOETATION OF SALMON 

 EEPOET OF THE COMMISSIONEES. 



To His Excellency Colonel Thomas Goke Browne, C.B., 

 Captain-General and Oovernor-in- Chief of the Colony 

 of Tasmania and its Dependencies. 



May it please Yotje Excellency, 



In their Eeport addressed to Your Excellency 

 in the year 1864, the Commissioners expressed their 

 unanimous opinion that, notwithstanding the con- 

 siderable amount of success that had attended their 

 recent attempt to introduce the Salmon and Trout 

 into the Colony, resulting in the hatching of several 

 thousands of the former and five hundred of the 

 latter, they should be authorised to procure another 

 importation of Ova, which they considered still 

 necessary for ensuring the ultimate success of the 

 undertaking, which they could not regard as com- 

 plete until crowned by the return of some of the 

 Salmon from the sea ; and with the view of acce- 

 lerating the full stocking of our numerous fine 

 Eivers with these invaluable fish. 



