A fishing company that chartered a South Korean deepsea vessel that sank off the coast of the South Island has replaced it with a smaller modern vessel.
Three crew members died when the Oyang 70 sank in the Southern Ocean on 18 August last year. Three others remain missing, presumed drowned.
The vessel was 38 years old. It had a crew of 51.
AFP reports the nationalities of the crew were listed as South Korean, Indonesian, Filipino and Chinese. The three bodies recovered were all Indonesians.
Southern Storm Fishing is in Dunedin preparing the Oyang 75, which is 23 years old.
Manager Russ Barron says the trawler leaves on Thursday on a squid fishing expedition and they want to put the tragedy of the Oyang 70 behind them.
He says the fishermen aboard the Oyang 75 are Indonesian and Philippine nationals.
