Efforts exhausted after searching more than 500 nautical miles for a missing fisherman

    Monday, 18 September 2023 07:00

    By Tonya Organ

    The man was one of four occupants on board a commercial cod fishing boat that sank on Tuesday afternoon.

    Search efforts for a missing fisherman off the coast of Fleur de Lys have been exhausted. On Saturday, the RCMP said despite search efforts being suspended, this remains a missing person at seas case. The investigation into the cause of the sunken vessel is continuing in partnership with Transport Canada and Workplace NL.  The man was one of four occupants on board a commercial cod fishing boat that sank on Tuesday afternoon. That afternoon, one man was rescued and the bodies of two other men were recovered by local fishermen prior to the arrival of search and rescue resources. Despite extensive search efforts of more than 500 square nautical miles the man has not been located.

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