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Hoki catch

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This footage shows how hoki, New Zealand’s biggest-earning fin-fish export in the early 2000s, are caught and processed aboard a factory trawler.

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Carl Walrond, Fishing industry – Deep-water fisheries, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/6250/hoki-catch (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 2 March 2009.