kahawain.
/ˈkɑːwʌɪ/ A perciform, marine, food fish, Arripis trutta, found in shoals in New Zealand and south-eastern Australian waters.
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1838 J. S. Polack New Zealand I. 322 The káháwai, or colourless salmon.
1845 E. J. Wakefield Adventure in N.Z. I. 92 A shoal of kawai came into that part of the bay. The kawai has somewhat of the habits of the salmon.
1849 W. T. Power Sketches in N.Z. ix. 76 The kawai is not unlike the salmon in size and shape, and, like it, comes up the rivers in shoals in the spring.
1870 R. Taylor Te Ika a Maui (ed. 2) 623 The Kahawai..is one of the most abundant, and is called mackerel by the settlers.
1927 Daily Express 26 Feb. 1 The Duchess returned to the Renown with seventeen ‘schnapper’ and one ‘kahawai’.
1962 Antiquity XXXVI. 272 Fish-hooks..another type of lure with barbed point notched for lashing (the kahawai lure).
1962 G. W. Jackson N.Z. Beach & Boating Bk. viii. 82 The bait is..a bundle of sprats or a whole kahawai.
1963 Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) 30 Nov. Stripping fillets of kahawai and baracouta we cut them into fish shapes and the reaction was immediate, the big fellows accepting them as readily as they had the rock cod earlier.
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