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‘Southland sock’

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‘Southland sock’

The tapering fyke net, also known as a Southland sock, is a popular design – it is very portable and collapses flat. This one is on the banks of the Matau (northern) branch of the lower Clutha River, in South Otago.

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Otago Daily Times

Reference: 6 January 2005, p.10

by Stephen Jaquiery

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Carl Walrond, Whitebait and whitebaiting – Nets, screens and canneries, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/11705/southland-sock (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 1 March 2009.