According to Fisheries department officials, both boats had ventured into the sea earlier this month, before the cyclone alert was issued.
“These are gill net boats, which set out to the sea to fish continuously for up to three weeks. Some of the similar boats, which had gone from Kerala, have even harboured in the Gujarat and Thengapattanam coast of Tamil Nadu after the warning was issued. So we can understand how far the boats had been,” said Aneesh P, Assistant Director of Fisheries in Ernakulam district.
According to Fisheries Department officials in Beypore, the missing fishing boat Ajmir Shah had set out near Mangaluru coast. “The owner of the boat said they had set out near Mangaluru coast. We have given information to the Coast Guard and they are searching,” said the official.
Meanwhile, on the night of Friday, 14 May, the Indian Coast Guard on Saturday, 15 May, recused three fishermen who had set off to sea from Kerala’s Kannur. Coast Guard ship Vikram rescued the…