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Kōrero: Trout and salmon

Big Glory Bay salmon farm

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Big Glory Bay salmon farm

The first sea-cage salmon farm was established in Big Glory Bay, Stewart Island, in 1983. Salmon are raised in large cages suspended in the sea and linked by floating walkways.

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by Greg Lind

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Carl Walrond, Trout and salmon – Chinook salmon, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/19616/big-glory-bay-salmon-farm (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Carl Walrond, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.