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Kōrero: Te hopu tuna – eeling

Utu piharau

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Utu piharau (lamprey weir)

Kei te awa o Whanganui tēnei utu piharau, i ngā tau whakamutunga o te rau tau atu i 1800. Ka hangaia ngā utu piharau i te ngahuru, hei mua i ngā waipuke o te takurua.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: 1/1-000483-G

by William James Harding

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Basil Keane, Te hopu tuna – eeling – Catching piharau – lampreys, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/13987/utu-piharau (accessed 28 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Basil Keane, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.