FISH BREEDING PONDS. 
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More fish were obtained by him the following year, 
from whence have sprung the immense supply now in 
Tasmania and Australia. To him, therefore — and to 
Mr. Joseph Allport, in whose gardens the ponds were 
built, and to whose unremitting care and attention i- 
due the successful rearing' of the parent fish — is the 
credit of stocking many thousands of acres of water, 
specially adapted for perch, and unfit perhaps for other 
valuable fish. 
In the introduction of perch to Victoria, mention 
has again to be made of the Ballarat Society ; and, 
in connection with it, of the Messrs. Seal, of Ballarat 
Perch distributed by them now teem through the 
southern, the western, and the northern districts of the 
colony. 
In Lake Wendouree, at Ballarat, no less than 0 tons 
have keen caught during last season, yielding a large 
money value, some of the fish being of unusual size. 
The Ballarat Society has preserved a perch, caught in 
December last in that lake, which weighed 3.1 lb. This 
fish was three years old. Another fish ms caught 
there during the early part of this year (1874) which 
weighed 4 lb. 
Visitors from England, who fished in the lake last 
season say the sport there is superior to that in some 
Ot the best waters in England. 
All the fish throughout the district spoken of are the 
1868 U< t fJV** MeS CaUgU in Tasrna nia, in 
1868, by Mr. Morton Allport, and sent by him as a 
present to Messrs. Seal. Without them, Wendouree 
lut r r t S1 !r lar might perha f’ 3 h ftve remained 
y WkCh th6y W6re > “ ** P^dise,” to the present 
