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… whalers and mako have occasionally attacked people off New Zealand shores. These sharks can be found in waters close to … use their tails to herd and prey, usually small schooling fish, but occasionally seabirds. The purple-brown and white …
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Part of story: Sharks and rays
… use During the first century or so after their arrival in New Zealand from Polynesia (around 1250–1300 CE), Māori … of moa in their diet. Moa bones were carved into fish hooks and pendants, and the skins and feathers were …
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Part of story: Moa
… A Scottish settlement English domination of the first New Zealand Company settlements prompted architect and … to be ‘a little township, something like a small fishing village at home … inhabited by a population …
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Part of story: Scots
… be dried) is treated differently. Who wrote that? The New Zealand Herbarium Network has produced another type of … and nematodes, held by Landcare Research, and freshwater fish, held by the National Institute of Water and …
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Part of story: Collections of plants and animals
… Three of the four heron species that breed in New Zealand – the white heron, white-faced heron and nankeen … and necks, and spear-like bills which they use to catch fish in shallow water. They are often solitary birds, but …
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Part of story: Herons
… it a pest. Similarly acclimatisation societies (now Fish & Game New Zealand) had for decades considered shags a threat to …
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Part of story: Marine conservation
… trout ( Oncorhynchus mykiss ) were first introduced to New Zealand in the early 1880s. They are descended mainly from … the rocks that are just boiling over with trout … and you fish in them for eight mortal hours without a nibble.’ 1 …
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Part of story: Trout and salmon
… Usefulness of the land The first European observers of the New Zealand landscape, in 1769–70, were the British navigator … build defences, houses and boats, the river would provide fish, and European vegetables could be grown. Cook reacted …
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Part of story: Perceptions of the landscape
… 27.2% unemployment rate was almost four times the New Zealand figure (7.1%). Although 31.2% of the population was … floodgates. The lake has a camping site and is popular for fishing and duck shooting. Kopuriki, midway between Waiōahau …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… ( Sterna striata ) is the most common tern living along New Zealand coasts, and on the Chatham and Auckland islands. … terns diving into the sea can be a sign that kahawai fish are close by. The birds feed on small fish, such as …
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Part of story: Gulls, terns and skuas
… Māori communities are coastal, and their long traditions of fishing have been widely recognised by New Zealanders. Yet Māori use has historically been more than …
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Part of story: Law of the foreshore and seabed
… has also been timber and flax milling, gold mining and fishing. Chinese miners worked at Round Hill – about 300 … Also in 1861, the first recorded horse race was held at a newly built track on the edge of town. Colac Bay/Ōraka Colac … Shale was extracted in huge amounts by the London-based New Zealand Coal and Oil Company. A mine was built, and …
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Part of story: Southland places
… coast of North America, and north-east Asia. Release in New Zealand New Zealand remains the only place in the world … and Hokitika rivers on the West Coast The renowned fisheries are the Waitaki, Rangitātā, Rakaia and Waimakariri …
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Part of story: Trout and salmon
… demands, Ruatepupuke fashioned a stone into an exquisite fishing lure which he named Te Whatukura-o-Tangaroa (the … of carving was established in Hawaiki and brought to New Zealand. Linguistically and technologically the cultures of …
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Part of story: Whakairo – Māori carving
… and one of the longest-running political organisations in New Zealand. Kuini Wai Hono i te Pō is the current and eighth … My mountain is Matemate-a-onga. My sea is Whanganui, the fish in it are the toitoi and white-bait.’ 2 Tūroa suggested …
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Part of story: Kīngitanga – the Māori King movement
… luminescent animal with a glowing belly that attracts fish from below. They usually inhabit depths to 3,500 … coastal waters and the open ocean, and some venture into New Zealand waters on their annual migrations during summer. …
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Part of story: Sharks and rays
… Establishment New Zealand’s first acclimatisation society was probably in … Licences were sold for deer and game-bird hunting and trout fishing, and the funds raised were ploughed back into the …
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Part of story: Acclimatisation
… ownership of land In the 1990s, foreign ownership of New Zealand land became an issue of public discussion. Overseas … Growing overseas interest in New Zealand’s hunting and fishing made it very profitable to enclose land for luxury …
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Part of story: Land ownership
… Employment Making a living in New Zealand was a challenge for the first Greek immigrants. … Instead they relied on family labour to run restaurants, fish-and-chip shops, fish wholesale outlets, milk bars, …
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Part of story: Greeks – the Hellenic community
… trails from rural Italy to several locations in New Zealand. These would characterise Italian immigration until … settlements developed from migration chains. Wellington: fishing In the 1890s the Russo family arrived from the …
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Part of story: Italians