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This information was published in 1966 in An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock. It has not been corrected and will not be updated.

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FISHING INDUSTRY

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Ports where landings were in excess of 10,000 cwt of wet fish and the principal species landed; i.e., in excess of 5,000 cwt (1964 production figures):

Ports Total Landings (cwt) Hundredweight of Principal Species
Auckland 133,424 Sn 86,052 TV 19,817 Ta 9,854
Timaru 56,961 G 14,406 EF 12,304 Ta 13,076
Gisborne 55,697 Ta 33,606 Sn 6,056
Wellington 45,340 Ta 20,727 H 6,446
Napier 43,296 G 11,094 Ta 9,590 Sn 5,658
Lyttelton 36,048 G 11,463 Ta 8,077 EF 5,407
Manukau 35,756 Sn 15,204 TV 8,372 G 6,234
Tauranga 27,437 Ta 10,922 Sn 8,897
Nelson 18,063 Sn 7,535
Thames 14,055 Sn 7,630
Port Chalmers 12,416 So 4,224
Bluff 11,635 BC 8,127
Akaroa 11,868 G 4,888
Chatham Islands 10,579 BC 9,744

Sn = Snapper; TV = Trevally; Ta = Tarakihi; H = Hapuku; EF = Elephant fish; G = Gurnard; BC = Blue cod; So = Sole.


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