Please attribute to Senior
Sergeant Glenn Saunders, Area Response Manager, Western Bay
of Plenty
Tonight at about 7pm, Tauranga police were
advised of an overdue fisherman.
A 60-year-old local man
went out fishing just after 7am this morning and was
expected back around noon, but didn’t return.
He was
fishing in an aluminium three metre long homemade boat, with
a centre console and an outboard motor.
Tauranga Police
have started a search and rescue operation to find the
missing man.
The brother of the missing man spoke to three
people at the Sulphur Point boat ramp at about 4.30pm this
afternoon and these people remember seeing a boat fitting
the description, anchored to ‘A buoy’ out at
sea.
Police are very keen to speak to these people who
claimed to have seen this boat.
If they or anyone else
has seen this boat or has any information, please contact
the Tauranga Police immediately on (07) 577 4300 or simply
call
111.
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