It was located by a Coastguard fixed-wing plane, south of Kennedy Bay around 5:40pm yesterday.

Police says it's likely to be the fisherman who's been missing since Christmas Eve.

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13 Sep: The Hawke's Bay men's NPC rugby team can now claim to be "the Bay"

13 Sep: Another narrow win for Waikato in rugby's NPC, after they pipped North Harbour 29-28 in Hamilton

12 Sep: Lima Sopoaga hs tipped two of his Waikato teammates as future All Blacks

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