Baie Verte — Search efforts exhausted for missing fisherman in Fleur de Lys

Source: Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Search efforts for a missing fisherman off the coast of Fleur de Lys have been exhausted.  The man was one of four occupants on board a commercial cod fishing boat that sank on Tuesday afternoon.  Despite extensive search efforts, the man has not been located.

On Tuesday 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.  Searches continued throughout that evening and over the course of the next four days.