September 30, 2005

The Mari­time Uni­on says the Depart­ment of Labour’s stance on two Viet­namese fish­er­men who have jumped ship in Nel­son is unac­cept­able.

Mari­time Uni­on Gen­er­al Sec­ret­ary Tre­vor Han­son says the Depart­ment of Labour has stated in the media it will not act until form­ally noti­fied by the fish­ing ves­sel char­ter­ers that crew mem­bers are miss­ing.

“In this case, the two miss­ing crew mem­bers have obvi­ously jumped ship from the Sky 75, like the ten Indone­sian crew mem­bers before them, and these two fish­er­men are prob­ably liv­ing rough.”