"POLES APART"

by Lytton High School Gisborne

KAI-MOANA In our beaches here in New Zealand we have food called kai-moana. Kai-moana means Food-from-the-Sea. We have all sorts of kai-moana like koura = crayfish kina = sea egg / sea urchin paua = abalone bubu = cat's eye (not a real cat's eye! ... something like a whelk) ika = fish kuku = mussels (not the muscles in your body!) pipi = shell fish peke = black nerita (a sort of bubu but nicer!) In New Zealand you are only allowed to take as much for you and your family. If you get caught selling more than enough you get fined. In the olden days that's all that our Tipuna (ancestors) used to eat. Our kai-moana is getting sent overseas to Japan. Japanese people pay lots of money to get a koura because they don't have enough sea food over there. Most people don't like kai-moana. There are a lot of ways to eat kai-moana like the PAUA, you can cream pauas or you could put them in a frying pan and just fry them. There are a lot of places were you could find kai-moana. You find kinas in rock pools with lots of seaweed. You can find the bubu's on rocks you can stand on. You find the pipis in the wet sand under your feet. Fish, well I think you know how to catch fish! ... well, if you don't, you can catch it with a net or with a fishing rod. You catch koura with crayfish pots. Pauas grow on the rocks and sometimes you have to swim out to the rocks. Pekes are just like bubus but a little different shape. by Kali Haenga