The Rescue Coordination Centre NZ (RCCNZ) received a distress ... Trevor James said the man was a Westport commercial fisherman, who was fishing for albacore tuna. "He was plucked out of a life ...

Surfers rescued two men who were thrown from their boat while trying to enter the Buller River off Carters Beach, Westport. Police said the pair had been in an 8-foot fibreglass fishing boat about ...

An ill crew member has been winched off a fishing vessel off the coast of Westport. The Nelson Marlborough Rescue helicopter lowered an intensive care paramedic onto the Don Wong this afternoon ...

The big fishing show off the coast is not only for salmon, but less common species like albacore tuna and, in one case, a striped marlin. Phil Wolff of Belfair was about 40 miles out of Westport ...