15 Oct 2020

More than 400 foreign fishers head to NZ for deep sea trawlers

From Checkpoint, 5:29 pm on 15 October 2020

More than 400 foreign fishers are headed to New Zealand to crew deep sea trawlers because Kiwis can't fill the jobs.

A charter flight from Russia will arrive in Christchurch tomorrow, where the first 200 crew members will begin managed isolation.

Timothy Brown has more.