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long fin eels - Coggle Diagram
long fin eels
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breding
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Females don’t mature until they are 34 years old, males until they are 23 to 25.
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how maori use eels
Eeling would occur at special times of the month and year according to arange of environmental indicators e.g. lunar cycles.
Once caught, eels were preserved by drying on lines,or smoking over fires
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“When opened up, a migration-prepared eel is found to have no stomach
or alimentary tract but instead has a heart, a liver and the whole rest of
the stomach cavity filled with a roe-like fat. When steamed this roe is a delicious treat” (Tuhirangi Marae Opening (1991) page: 2).
Successive months according to size. Māori families with fishing rights
at Wairarapa Moana only fished during the migration Different sizes and species of eel had specific names, migrating in period and caught
enough eels to last a year.