{"id":473683,"date":"2026-06-12T12:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/473683\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T12:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:17:11","slug":"freshly-caught-fish-in-far-north-dinghy-with-no-owner-in-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/473683\/","title":{"rendered":"Freshly caught fish in Far North dinghy \u2013 with no owner in sight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dinghy has been located in the Far North&#8217;s Hihi Beach with fresh fish inside \u2013 but its owner was nowhere to be found.<\/p>\n<p>As a precaution, police have appealed to the public for any information which may assist in identifying the owner of the boat or its recent movements.<\/p>\n<p>Hihi Beach is about 29km east of Kait\u0101ia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The general appearance of the dinghy indicates it is in use, so police would like to rule out the vessel being linked to anyone missing or in distress.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/hihi-beach-is-located-about-29km-east-of-kaitaia-6PSMXRUE2ZESNOTBMITPKYMSOM.jpg\" alt=\"Hihi Beach is located about 29km east of Kaitaia.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Hihi Beach is located about 29km east of Kaitaia. (Source: New Zealand Police)<\/p>\n<p>The dinghy is described as light blue, approximately six feet, with a worn off-white interior.<\/p>\n<p>A fishing net was found inside it with a loose seat cushion, a wooden bench and three &#8220;freshly caught&#8221; fish.<\/p>\n<p>People with information which may help are asked to contact police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dinghy has been located in the Far North&#8217;s Hihi Beach with fresh fish inside \u2013 but its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,1067,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-473683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-northland","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}