Description
Rare colonial engraving of the Salmon Ponds at New Norfolk established in the same year as this engraving, 1864.
The Salmon Ponds was 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 Illustrated London News.
