Egg-carrying (berried) female kouraIn 2017 Hokonui Rūnanga started Koura Farming, in a joint venture with Ngai Tahu and Earnslaw One. 
Pond ready for koura, 2017
One hundred ‘breeders’ were released into the pond – 50 males, 50 females and 15 berried females (females carrying eggs).
Rewi Anglem was the driving force for this project. Rewi believed that Hokonui could make this project as big as we wanted. “The pond is a suitable environment for them to grow and breed, leave them alone to do their thing”.