CAPE ELIZABETH (AP) – The Coast Guard ended its search for a missing lobsterman on Thursday, but state and local agencies continued the recovery effort.

The decision was made to end the search-and-rescue operation at 11:14 a.m. pending further developments, said Paul Conner, a Coast Guard controller. The Maine Marine Patrol and state police and local dive teams remained on the scene, he said.

Two fishermen made it to shore but there was no sign of the skipper, Steve Smith, after a rogue wave caught the 38-foot April Lee late Wednesday afternoon.

“We don’t believe there’s any way he could have survived,” said Deputy Fire Chief Michael Jordan. The water temperature was 59 degrees, he said.

Law enforcement officials did not release the names of the two fishermen who made it to shore with help from a couple of house builders. Both reported that they did not see Smith after the boat capsized. They were not wearing survival suits, they said.

The capsized boat washed ashore about 100 yards from the home of Vincent Conti, president of the Maine Medical Center. Gloves, buckets and other debris were strewn on the rocks between McKenney Point and Kettle Cove.

Remnants of Hurricane Florence kicked up powerful ocean swells and created havoc Wednesday for commercial fishermen along Maine’s coast.

Marie Thomas, who has lived on McKenney’s Point Road for 50 years, said this was the second boat she’d seen capsize in the past 10 years.

“It is a beautiful place, but it can be dangerous. Sometimes it’s just like glass. Sometimes, like today, it is very rough,” she said Wednesday.

In a separate incident Wednesday, a lobsterman was rescued off Cape Elizabeth after being tossed overboard when his 18-foot boat capsized off Zeb’s Cove.

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