The Salmon Ponds, New Norfolk, Tasmania.

Scarce c.19th engraving of the Salmon Ponds at New Norfolk.

The Salmon Ponds were established in 1864 as a hatchery to receive salmon eggs sent from England. Since salmon are migratory fish, spending part of their life at sea, it was expected that once released, the fish hatched at New Norfolk would return to the Derwent River. Although the eggs were hatched and the young fish reared successfully, they failed to return from the sea once released. A small number of trout eggs, included with the first shipment of salmon eggs, were more successful and today a Museum of Trout Fishing is located within a cottage built in 1865 for the first superintendent of the Salmon Ponds.

From the original edition of the Australasian Sketcher.

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National Library Australia: Bib ID 914558
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