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ahumoana

1. (noun) fish farming, aquaculture.

I ngā tekau tau o 1980 me 1900, ka haere ētahi o ngā moni whakataunga tiriti a ngā iwi ki ngā wāhanga ngāherehere, ahumoana hoki (Te Ara 2013). / In the decade 1980 and 1990 some of the tribal treaty settlements went to the forestry and aquaculture divisions.

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