Fears are growing for the two people who were believed to have been onboard the 'Governor'. File photo / NZ Herald
The search is being wrapped up this evening for two people and their fishing boat, the Governor, who have been missing off the coast of Fiordland since last night, police say.
The skipper of the vessel, the Governor, 60-year-old Kevin Cosgrove of Dobson, and crewman, 16-year-old Nirvana Drew Reynolds, of
Blackball, were last seen yesterday about 11.30am.
They had told another boat about their fishing net becoming snagged north of the Milford South mouth, near Yates Point.
An empty life raft has been found and a fuel slick has been seen a few kilometres from the mouth.
A plane searched from Poison Bay to Yates Point but failed to find anything of significance, she said.
