About 45 minutes ' drive from Hobart are the Salmon Ponds is the most famous and the oldest in the southern hemisphere fish hatchery. It was founded in 1860, and since the late 19th century is one of the popular places for picnics among residents and visitors to Hobart. Around the ponds features a wonderful garden on the traditional English type, which is the rough-hewn old house – it then housed the plant. Here you can learn many interesting facts – for example, about how difficult it was to transport from England salmon and trout caviar 150 years ago, to explore the ancient building and look at the fish cages. By the way, in the ponds the fish and you can feed the trout and salmon are still here.

It is interesting that, despite the name of the Salmon Ponds, here in the vast majority of trout, not salmon. The fact that salmon are migratory, most of her life she spends at sea, and only for procreation, she returned to the river to spawn. When they built the plant and ordered the first batch of eggs from England, it was believed that after the release of the salmon he will return to the Derwent river. Several attempts were made, but for unknown reasons released salmon in the sea and never returned. However, trout, diluted and grown together with salmon and non-migratory fish, quickly spread throughout the lakes and rivers of Tasmania.

Another attraction of the Salmon Ponds is incredibly popular with fishermen of all stripes Trout Museum with a fascinating collection. The exhibits demonstrate the changes that occurred in fishing equipment for over one hundred years. Here you can see the winding fishing, fishing rods, types of lures and other devices for catching fish. In the Museum you can buy books, Souvenirs and themed stuff.