Māori tribes record changes to lands and oceans, with some food-gathering practices that have sustained communities for hundreds of years lost
, Māori tribes are recording changes – subtle and dramatic – to their lands and oceans, with some experiencing the losses of food-gathering practices that have sustained their communities for hundreds of years. As the speed and severity of changes ramps up, tribes are racing to find solutions to preserve the ocean environments that they depend on, and carry treasured species into the future.
“My dad talked about when he was a child, it was so plentiful that they were putting it back into the river, they were just catching bucketloads”“My husband talks about when he grew up in the village as a child, so they were putting it on the garden as manure, it was just so plentiful. If I go back about 15 years ago, I had cousins who, within the fishing season, would catch enough fish to sustain them.
“Kai [food] is a central part of life, our wellbeing, everything,” Paruru says. “So it’s our responsibility then to make sure that we protect what we have left for the future generations.”In the small fishing village of Moeraki, on the east coast of the south island, Ngāi Tahu hapū [subtribes] are watching the weather patterns change, and the coastlines begin to crumble.
“Many who live away from our village would be shocked by the changes to the coastline or how our traditional mahinga kai practices have had to adapt due to climate change,” he says. With mussels near-annihilated on the rocks around the harbour, the tribe has over the last decade invested heavily in an off-shore mussel farm – there, the deeper waters are less subject to temperature leaps. Over time, the tribe hopes to keep expanding it into thousands of hectares of open ocean.
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