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Seafood industry

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Seafood industry

Much of the harvest of fish and shellfish from the Coromandel Peninsula is processed outside the region, but this plant, which processes scallops and other seafood, is in Whangamatā.

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by Jo Tait

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Paul Monin, Hauraki–Coromandel region – Population and society since 1910, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/30499/seafood-industry (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Paul Monin, published 13 December 2010, updated 1 April 2016.