Fishing Reports News

Fishing union throws weight behind hunger strikers
The Maritime Union yesterday threw its weight behind a Ukrainian fishing vessel crew on hunger strike in Lyttelton Port.
The union’s general secretary Trevor Hanson said the men’s protest for wages they claim is owed to them under New Zealand law is a “symptom of the disease of […]

Hundreds of people are expected to attend a combined funeral in Bluff on Saturday for five people who died when their boat sank in Foveaux Strait a week ago.
A funeral for the sixth victim, Ian Haywood, was held earlier this week.
The sinking of the 15-metre trawler is New Zealand’s worst maritime disaster in […]

Fisherman dies in vessel accident

The accident happened at the harbour in Lochinver
A 52-year-old fisherman has died and another has been injured in an accident aboard a Spanish-registered trawler.
Police said a pallet of fish boxes which was being winched from the hold of the MFV Kirrixki at Lochinver came loose and fell on […]

Little hope of finding missing fisherman
Police say they hold little hope of finding a 18 year-old man missing from a trawler off eastern Cape York.
Crew mates told detectives they have not seen Matthew John Kinneally since he tried to swim between two boats in Princess Charlotte Bay on Wednesday night.
They did not raise the alarm […]

Search off Wexford to continue through weekend
A search off the Co Wexford coast for two men missing from the fishing boat, the Maggie B, is to continue through the weekend.
The vessel, which previously capsized in 1993, sank off the coast of Co Wexford on Wednesday night.
Hundreds of people are now taking part in this […]