A fisherman off the Queensland coast is making a ‘pardon’ to a man who went missing more than five years ago.

The 47-year-old man, who had been fishing at Lake Nudgee, went missing in 2012 and never resurfaced.

The fisherman has taken up the search.

He’s not the first to make a ‘bounty’ on a missing person.

In the past two years, a man has paid $100,000 to $200,000 for the return of missing people.

The man is known to be a member of the crew, who often share the same boat.

He was last seen on June 1, 2012, by members of the boat’s crew.

He disappeared with a crew member on the boat while it was fishing at the mouth of Lake Nudga.

In December 2013, a fisherman called Sea Shepherd told a reporter that a man in his 20s had been seen on a boat heading towards the same lake.

He claimed to have tracked the man’s boat to the same spot, where he had apparently been killed.

The group has been patrolling the Lake Nudea area for five years, after the discovery of a man’s body there in 2011.

In 2012, a woman in her 30s, who was on a fishing boat with the same crew, was also found dead on the lake.

Topics:missing-person,community-and-society,qld,nudgee-6168,australiaFirst posted December 11, 2018 18:00:02Contact the writer: callum-jones@stuff.co.nz