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Story: Te hī ika – Māori fishing

Coastal fishery

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Coastal fishery

Haami and Dick Te Whaiti stand above a taiapure (reserve) at Palliser Bay near Wellington, in 1995. This coastal fishery was the result of efforts begun in 1989 by Wairarapa elder Mita Carter to ensure that Wairarapa people could have a say in their traditional fisheries.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1995/1597/29

by Melanie Burford

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Paul Meredith, Te hī ika – Māori fishing – Fisheries management and practice, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/6823/coastal-fishery (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Paul Meredith, published 2 March 2009.