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birthplace towards the end of the present year, 

 when their arrival will be anxiously looked for as 

 the happy consummation of this great enterprise. 



The English Trout may be now regarded as es- 

 tablished in our rivers beyond all risk of failure ; 

 and the Commissioners entertain a confident belief 

 that the young Salmon already set at large in the 

 Derwent, with the still larger number which they 

 have lately succeeded in hatching and. are now 

 thriving in the Ponds, would suffice for the ultimate 

 stocking of our waters with this still more valuable 

 fish. 



At the same time, their opinion that this great 

 work should never be regarded as fully accomplished 

 until the fish have returned from the sea, and pro- 

 vided the means of further propagation, remains 

 unchanged. They therefore very earnestly re- 

 commend that they should be authorised and 

 enabled to procure at least one more importation 

 of Ova from England, which would not only give 

 a further guarantee against ultimate failure, but 

 would greatly accelerate the full stocking of the 

 rivers of the Colony, and the early realisation of 

 the vast benefits that cannot fail to flow from the 

 accomplishment of this great work. 



When the almost incalculable value of the Salmon 

 and Trout — as articles of human food, as a means 

 of extending our commerce, increasing our popu- 



