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Te hopu tuna – eeling

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Notes on eels and eel-weirs (tuna and pa-tuna)

T. W. Downes’ article from the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, first published in 1918, gives a comprehensive account of eeling and eel weirs.
The eels of Lake Wairarapa

Tame Saunders gave this account of the annual eel migration at Lake Wairarapa, published in Te Ao Hou magazine in 1965.
Wairewa research project – tuna heke

The annual tuna migration and harvest still happens today. This site has photographs and information on the harvest.

More suggestions and sources

Best, Elsdon. Fishing methods and devices of the Māori. Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2005 (originally published 1924).
Guthrie-Smith, W. H. Tutira: the story of a New Zealand sheep station. Auckland: Godwit, 1999 (originally published 1921).

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