Story: Te hopu tuna – eeling

More links and websites

• 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 Runanga Inc. Soc.

  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).