The family of missing Thurso man David Budge have been informed after police recovered a body from Scrabster Harbour.
The 55-year-old was last seen around 1.10pm on Tuesday in the harbour area at Scrabster, near the ferry terminal.
The alarm was raised shortly before midnight with search teams, including two coastguard helicopters, deployed as efforts have been made to locate Mr Budge.
The first search took place into the small hours of this morning, with Inverness based Rescue 151 searching between 2am and 7am.
Rescue 948 from Stornoway was deployed around 10.30am to provide assistance alongside local coastguard teams from Scrabster, Melvich, Duncansby, Wick and Melness.
Family of missing man David Budge informed after body found
