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Collecting seafood at Porirua Harbour

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Collecting seafood at Porirua Harbour

This watercolour by Samuel Brees from the early 1840s shows a waka (canoe) on Porirua Harbour, with somebody collecting shellfish on the rocky shore.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: B-031-028

by Samuel Charles Brees

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Manuka Henare, Te mahi kai – food production economics – Types of food production, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/20263/collecting-seafood-at-porirua-harbour (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Manuka Henare, published 1 March 2009.