More links and websites
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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.
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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.
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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
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Best, Elsdon. Fishing methods and devices of the Māori. Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2005 (originally published 1924).
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Guthrie-Smith, W. H. Tutira: the story of a New Zealand sheep station. Auckland: Godwit, 1999 (originally published 1921).