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New Zealand, as well as having supplied several applicants in 
Victoria. 
With reference to pisciculture, the Council have to report that 
considerable progress has been made, notwithstanding several draw¬ 
backs and losses. One hundred ova of sea trout were received from 
the Salmon Commissioners of Tasmania last year, at the proper 
season, and were successfully hatched at the Royal Park, where they 
were retained with very small loss until fit for removal; they were 
then carried to a pond which had been prepared for them ; 
but the water was found to be unsuitable, and a number 
of deaths occurred in consequence; the remainder were successfully 
removedwithoutfurther loss to the head waters of a brightclearstream 
a day’s journey from Melbourne. This experiment has proved 
that ova may be successfully hatched at the Society’s establishment, 
and the young fish carried to any part of the colony. The Council 
therefore propose, for the present, to obtain ova from Tasmania 
rather than to incur the expense of preparing breeding ponds. It 
is proposed, after hatching the ova at the Royal Park, to distribute 
the young fish to persons who will place them in enclosed waters 
adapted for them, and who will engage to prepare ponds to keep 
fish for breeding purposes, so that the fry may be turned out each 
year into the open streams. 
A large number of brown trout ova were also obtained last spring, 
and in compliance with previous arrangements were placed in hatching 
boxes upon a stream some distance up the country, at the station of 
a Member of the Society, who, at his own expense not only pre¬ 
pared the boxes, but also a pond. The boxes were properly protected 
so far as could be foreseen. The ova were sucessfully hatched, and 
the young fish in a fit state for moving, when some person in the 
absence of the owner cut away the zinc covering from the boxes and 
removed the young fish. It is disheartening to gentlemen who are 
spending their time and money in carrying out the objects of the 
Society to have their ends frustrated by such nefarious conduct. It is 
to be presumed, however, that the fry have been turned out elsewhere, 
it is to be hoped, into some stream suitable for them. 
Several streams have already been supplied with young trout, and 
from one of them a fish was taken about six months ago measuring 
