APPENDIX. 233 



RETURN of the Distribution of Ova and Fry from tlie 

 Breeding Ponds, River Plenty, during the Year 1878. 



OVA. 



Brown Trout. 



New South Wales 500 



Victoria 8000 



Streams in the vicinity of Lake St. Clair, Tasmania 2000 



FEY. 



Brown Trout. 



River Mersey 500 



Eiver Plenty 1500 



Ben Lomond Bivulet 300 



Macquarie Eiyer 600 



Meander Eiver 500 



Launceston 1000 



Coal Eiver 19.50 



Lisdillon 900 



Huon 250 



Prossers 450 



Since their last \Eeport your Commissioners 

 have continued to receive evidence of the rapid 

 increase of the various species of Salmonidcs in the 

 Elvers of the Colony. 



It may be interesting to record the fact that, for 

 the first time in the Eiver Derwent, fishing for 

 Salmon with rod and line has been successfully 

 practised in the salt water between Bridgewater 

 and Austin's Perry. 



