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    • Five old cans of toheroa shellfish.
    Rights: Scottie Productions Published 6 June 2016 Size: 170 KB Referencing Hub media

    The last toheroa canning factory closed in New Zealand in 1971. The commercial fishing and canning of these shellfish contributed to the collapse of toheroa populations.

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      Reviving toheroa

      Shellfish numbers have been plentiful for centuries and important kai for Northland Māori, but industrial harvesting and canning had a devastating effect on toheroa numbers. I ngā wā o mua ko te ...

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