220 APPENDIX. 



TASMANIA. 



EXTEACTS FROM THE 



SALMON COMMISSIONEES' EEPOET 



FOE THE YEAE 1876. 



Since the date of our last Eeport very satisfactory 

 evidence of the establishment of the Salmon in the 

 Derwent and its estuary has been accumulated. 



During the year 1873 numerous Smolts were 

 captured in various parts of the river ; while large 

 bodies of fish of great size were frequently seen in 

 the Derwent through the whole com-se of its stream, 

 as they had been for the previous six or seven 

 years. 



In the month of December of that year the 

 reward of Thirty pounds, which had been offered by 

 the Government for the capture of the first Grilse 

 or Salmon, was claimed by Mr. Joseph Cronly, 

 and paid to him on the recommendation of the 

 Commissioners after the most careful inspection of 

 the fish for which the claim was made, and after it 

 had been subjected to the various anatomical tests 



