After devastating Cyclone Phyan the missing fishermen are found safe and sound as their boats have reached shore in Karnataka and Goa. One boat is reported to have reached Devgarh in Maharashtra. It is told that more than 15 fishermen and eight fishing boats were reported missing off the Karnataka coast on Wednesday.
As the red laert was issued by the authorities no fishermen had venture out into the sea though the sea was calmer on Thursday. Coast Guard personnel on Thursday rescued five fishermen from their boat in middle of the Arabian Sea. With a failed engine, it had drifted for over 30 km towards Malpe.
Commandant Padam Shekhar Jha, Commander, Coast Guard, Karnataka, said that the fishermen were rescued 14 nautical miles off Malpe port in Udupi district. It is told that a Coast Guard vessel sighted them with their boat, “Zena”, around 10.30 a.m. on Thursday. They were brought here in the evening.
There were two deep-sea trawlers and one gillnet boat from Udupi district capsized in rough sea conditions in the past two days. One deep-sea trawler and four gillnet boats were damaged, opined Suresh Kumar, Deputy Director, Department of Fisheries.
