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Would never have dreamt of eating shark back then (and I see I had the years wrong...should be late 50's early 60's)...no one in Mt Maunganui

ate anything but snapper or tarakihi back in those...

In the late 60's early 70's a mate and I caught sharks off Rabbit Island (Mt Maunganui) in what was known as 'shark alley'...thinking back we must have been bloody mad as we used a dinghy and a canoe...