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Italian fish shop, Wellington

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Italian fish shop, Wellington

Antonio Cuccurullo and Camillo Amitrano share a joke in their Wellington fish shop in 1991. Early Italian immigrants to Wellington set themselves up as fishermen, and it was a natural move for those from fishing families to open fish shops or to sell fish and chips.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1990/1921-F

by Mark Coote

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Carl Walrond, Food shops – Butchers and fishmongers, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/25483/italian-fish-shop-wellington (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 6 April 2010, updated 1 September 2016.