Day: 13 June 2007

Cash bounty for missing crew members could attract criminals

The Mar­itime Union says cash boun­ties being offered for miss­ing over­seas fish­ing crew mem­bers is extreme­ly dan­ger­ous and is of dubi­ous legal­i­ty.

Mar­itime Union Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Trevor Han­son says he is con­cerned about a new trend that has pri­vate oper­a­tors fronting up big mon­ey to track down miss­ing crew mem­bers.

An adver­tise­ment placed in the Ota­go Dai­ly Times today offers an $1000 boun­ty for infor­ma­tion about miss­ing crew mem­ber Kismo Pak­istan who left his ves­sel the FV Oyang 70 in Dunedin on 5 June 2007.