Kei te mahi kōura ēnei tāngata me tā rātou pouraka. He momo kupenga tēnei hei hopu kōura, īnanga me era o ngā ika pakupaku. Ko Māwharu te pō pai rawa atu ki te mahi kōura me te pouraka.
E ai ki a Bill Hohepa - tohunga hī ika - he ingoa tō tēnā iwi, tō tēnā iwi mō ngā wāhanga o te maramataka. Heoi, ka whakaae katoa rātou ko hea ngā wā pai ki te hī ika, ko hea ngā wā kāore i pai ki te hī ika.
Tuhinga
We know that the lunar month is 28 and a half days. Some of these Māori lunar calendars went for 35 days so you really couldn't reconcile them to our calendar month. But, what I did find when I put them all together that they had a basic theme running through them. Okay, some might refer to sharks up in the far north and the best time for catching them and down south they might refer to the best time for frostfish and other fish and so on but there was a basic theme running through them that at certain times of the lunar month, a couple of days before the full moon and various other periods between the phases of the moon, were very good times or very bad times for fishing.
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Reference: 44119
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