Day: 22 December 2006

A cashless Christmas for foreign fishing crews far from home

A sec­ond group of Ukrain­ian crew mem­bers aboard the arrest­ed ves­sel Alek­san­dr Kseno­fontov in Dunedin are at log­ger­heads with employ­ers and have approached the Mar­itime Union seek­ing help.

Mar­itime Union Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Trevor Han­son says the sit­u­a­tion with the fish­ing ves­sel is a clas­sic exam­ple of the prob­lems still com­ing to the sur­face in the fish­ing indus­try.

Mr Han­son says around 14 senior crew mem­bers, believed to be offi­cers, have approached the Dunedin police and the Mar­itime Union claim­ing their con­tract has been bro­ken.