Eastern Bay Home Kills is a licensed butchery at 198a Kawerau Road in Ōhope, Whakatāne. Its speciality is farm kills, offered as a full farm kill service, along with wild game processing and fish smoking and curing. The site says the farm kill service gives the animal a stress-free end and better-tasting meat. Meat can be cut to a customer's choice, and products include sausages, salami and bacon.
Fish smoking and curing is offered for big game fish, with favourites including gemfish, pink maomao, salmon, mullet, trout, kahawai and trevally. The business also smokes snapper and blue cod, which it says can be dry when cooked fresh. Hunting catches and game are processed to order. Packing is vacuum sealed, or bagged in set quantities, and the meat can be given a flavour such as chilli, black pepper, lemon and chives. Our pick in Ōhope for a home butchery that handles the whole catch.