Matt Paku — Transcript

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1. 0:00I met pakus
2. 0:03um my happiness
3. 0:04and my
4. 0:06tribe isn't it
5. 0:09born and bred in the wairarapa on the
6. 0:12coast
7. 0:12and been here and this is probably here
8. 0:15for some just about 30 years
9. 0:18um spin
10. 0:20part of my uh
11. 0:22younger life over in rokawa and leban
12. 0:26and based around
13. 0:29one of the most beautiful lakes in the
14. 0:32country is
15. 0:35I was brought up within people and first
16. 0:38deal said this was my first
17. 0:41finish where the eels was over on that
18. 0:43Coast
19. 0:44um was brought up here until I was far
20. 0:47out of four and then went back over to
21. 0:49the other coast to my dad had shifted
22. 0:51over my family had shipped it over there
23. 0:52I was found right out to my auntie here
24. 0:55until it was old enough to go to school
25. 0:56and I went back and lived in um
26. 1:01just between Levin and Shannon and
27. 1:05that's where we first started catching
28. 1:07eels when I was seven or eight
29. 1:11um we had creeks and dams for miles over
30. 1:14there so that was our past time for a
31. 1:17short time until our father knew what we
32. 1:19were doing was catching all these eels
33. 1:20and throwing them in troughs and
34. 1:23doing things so he actually
35. 1:25um got us and made us go and collect all
36. 1:27the heels that we caught about two or
37. 1:29three hundred years and we had to go and
38. 1:30get them
39. 1:31bring them in half out of them all clean
40. 1:34them
41. 1:35salt dried them until they were dry so
42. 1:38that was months
43. 1:39so we learned about what ill was about
44. 1:42then way back then
45. 1:46so I was involved over there with the uh
46. 1:49local over there on the lake
47. 1:53um caught experienced the fish in the
48. 1:57migration of the eels going the Tony
49. 1:59hecka you're going to see
50. 2:01and then I was already quite Adept to
51. 2:05poverty and he also after my exercise
52. 2:07with my dad
53. 2:08so we used to do
54. 2:11with the more book of the family that I
55. 2:13was with fishing the eels on the
56. 2:15migration we'd catch sometimes a
57. 2:17thousand twelve hundred eels in a night
58. 2:20and process them all down in the weeks
59. 2:22to come
60. 2:23dry them all so yeah most of my ill
61. 2:27experience was in
62. 2:29real color I've been living
63. 2:32otaki Commodore Shannon
64. 2:34and then I come back home here shifted
65. 2:37back home here and
66. 2:39sort of settled down a bit
67. 2:42and started um
68. 2:44healing his commercial healing way back
69. 2:471974-76
70. 2:5121 Mile comes from the wainui river
71. 2:53introduced me to this commercial Island
72. 2:55because we were working at the freezing
73. 2:57Works in
74. 2:59and then the off-season most of my
75. 3:02relations from here a lot of them went
76. 3:04commercially ill in for two or three
77. 3:06months of the year
78. 3:07so at that time there would have been 50
79. 3:10commercial dealers in the wairarapa