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Hoop nets

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Hoop nets

Fishermen from the Ngāti Porou tribe hold large hoop nets. A smaller type of hoop net, called a kōrapa, was used by the tribe to catch eels.

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Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

Reference: Elsdon Best, Fishing methods and devices of the Maori. Wellington: Dominion Museum, 1929, p. 248.

by J. McDonald

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Basil Keane, Te hopu tuna – eeling – Torches, nets and spears, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/13980/hoop-nets (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Basil Keane, published 2 March 2009.