Missing fishermen found safe and well
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![Police are searching for two separate fishing parties. [File image].](http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201004/r554920_3310629.jpg "Police are searching for two separate fishing parties. [File image].")
Police are searching for two separate fishing parties. [File image]. (7pm TV News NT)
Northern Territory Police have found two fishing parties which had gone missing overnight in the Top End.
Police were searching for three men who went fishing on the Victoria River yesterday.
"We've had a very concerned wife ring up and say that her husband, her son, and husband's brother went fishing yesterday morning and was supposed to be due back at lunch time," Duty Superintendent Bob Rennie said.
"Unfortunately she didn't know where along the Vic River they were going.
"This morning Timber Creek will check all the ramps out that way between Katherine and Timber Creek, see if we can locate the car and trailer."
The three men were located this morning.
Earlier, police located an 18-year-old fisherman who had gone missing near the Vernon Islands, north of Darwin.
Duty Superintendent Rennie says the man left his trailer at Leaders Creek yesterday morning and had not returned.
He ran out of petrol and was found safe and well.
The officer in charge of the NT Water Police, Steve Martin, says it is important anglers are prepared before they take to the water.
"Please check your flares, check your EPIRB, check your safety gear.
"Make sure you've got the right gear, you've got life jackets on board and they're in good order; that you've got all the required ores, back-up motors if you require them."
Missing fishermen found safe and well - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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