A Northland oyster farmer is calling for sightings of a barge brazenly stolen from in front of his Te Hapua home.
Roy Langford said the barge had been seen leaving Parengarenga Harbour, just south of Cape Reinga, on August 19. Later that day it was seen with two men on board passing Henderson Bay, on the east coast near Houhora.
A few weeks later it was seen in the Kerikeri Inlet by a Fisheries officer on the police launch Deodar, but no one on board realised it was stolen.
Mr Langford said the most recent, but unconfirmed, sighting was at Kerikeri's Opito Bay, where a barge matching its description was seen leaving the bay early one morning last week.
Someone else had reported seeing the barge on the back of a truck in the Dome Valley near Warkworth, but Mr Langford believed it was still in Northland.