Kaimoana word search
Pipi dug at low tide, pāua fritters and a feed of snapper off the wharf. Twenty words for kaimoana, the food of the sea, and the catch limits that keep it there.
- Blue cod
- Bluff oysters
- Catch limit
- Cockles
- Crayfish
- Fritters
- Gurnard
- Hāpuku
- Kahawai
- Kina
- Low tide
- Mussels
- Pāua
- Pipi
- Scallops
- Smoked fish
- Snapper
- Tarakihi
- Tuatua
- Whitebait
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- Blue cod
- Bluff oysters
- Catch limit
- Cockles
- Crayfish
- Fritters
- Gurnard
- Hāpuku
- Kahawai
- Kina
- Low tide
- Mussels
- Pāua
- Pipi
- Scallops
- Smoked fish
- Snapper
- Tarakihi
- Tuatua
- Whitebait
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Kaimoana
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About this word search
Kaimoana means food from the sea, and the New Zealand coast is full of it. Pipi and tuatua are dug from the sand at low tide, pāua are prised off the rocks, and whitebait fritters are a spring treat on the West Coast. Each kind has a daily catch limit, and pāua and crayfish also have a minimum size, so there is enough left for the future.
The grid is fourteen by fourteen and the words go across, down or diagonally, never backwards. Bluff oysters is the longest with twelve letters, then catch limit and smoked fish with ten each. Pāua, kina and pipi are only four letters and hide easily. The K turns up in six words, from kina to hāpuku, and Bluff has its own double F.
Before a trip to the beach, use the sheet to talk about which kaimoana can be gathered there and how much. Fisheries New Zealand publishes the rules for each area.
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