In 1839 the Southern Australian published this letter.
I wish, through the medium of your columns, to call the attention of my brother colonists, particularly the poorer class, to one amongst other resources in the colony which is much neglected, I allude to the Cray Fish with which the Torrens abounds. I have lately heard of instances of ladies, for pastime, and children, catching as many as three and four dozen in an hour, and that by the simple process of bobbing with a piece of pork at the end of a string, yet I have never heard of these fish being introduced into the market or caught as a matter of trade
