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Kōrero: Seafood

Crayfishing

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Crayfishing

These Māori fishermen at Waipiro Bay on the East Coast are rowing out to set their crayfish pot. Traditionally, pots were fashioned from supplejack vines and flax twine into a beehive shape. Baited pots were placed into submerged rocky reefs and retrieved after a couple of hours, usually with a crayfish inside.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

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Maggy Wassilieff, Seafood – Early Māori and settler diets, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/5094/crayfishing (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Maggy Wassilieff, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.