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Story: Te hī ika – Māori fishing

Measuring a rock lobster pot

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Measuring a crayfish pot

Photographed at Waiapu on the North Island’s East Coast, Peter Buck (Te Rangi Hīroa), the Ngāti Mutunga anthropologist, measures a tāruke kōura (rock lobster or crayfish pot) with two kaumātua (elders).

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Paul Meredith, Te hī ika – Māori fishing – Tools, grounds and methods, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/6803/measuring-a-crayfish-pot (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Paul Meredith, published 2 March 2009.