Fishing on Ma'uke An Archaeological and Ethnographic Study of Fishing Strategies on a Makatea Island

Abstract

An analysis was carried out on a fi shbone assembl age from Anai'o. a fo urteenth century village site on the island of Ma' uke, in the Southern Cook Islands. The bones were fo und to be predominantly from species in habiting the reef-edge zone. These species were most probably taken using various types of angling strategy. There was little evidence to suggest that offshore fishing pl ayed a signifi cant role in Anai'o marine exploitation. This view was supported by the type of fishing gear ree-0vered from the site. In a comparison between Anai'o fi shing strategies and those practised on the island in recent times, several areas of change were apparent. However, these c hanges were largely technological and masked a very clear pattern of continuity in the basic structure of Ma' uke fishing over a 600 year peri od.

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