A crew member has been missing more than three days after going overboard from a fishing vessel in the Southern Ocean hundreds of kilometres south of New Zealand.
Maritime NZ said its Rescue Coordination Centre had been made aware of a person going overboard from a commercial fishing vessel at around 8.30pm last Thursday.
The vessel was located around 100 nautical miles southeast of the Auckland Islands, more than 600km south of Invercargill.
A Maritime NZ spokesperson told 1News an on-water search was initiated.
"RCCNZ broadcast distress relays through the Maritime Operations Centre and undertook search planning utilising computer aided drift modelling," they said.
The crew member, a foreign national, has not been sighted since falling overboard.
"Maritime NZ will be investigating this incident."
In April, a crew member was knocked overboard by equipment on a commercial fishing vessel in the Southern Ocean.
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