LUBEC, Maine (AP) – The search is continuing for two urchin fishermen who remain missing after their boat went down in Cobscook Bay in eastern Maine near the Canadian border.
The Coast Guard says the 32-foot fishing vessel, Bottom Basher, was reported missing with three fishermen aboard Tuesday night after it failed to return to its home port of Lubec. The body of one of the men was recovered Wednesday.
The Coast Guard says that on Wednesday searchers found part of the boat’s hull marked with its state registration number, along with lifejackets marked with the vessel’s name.
Counting this week’s sinking, six men have died in the waters off Lubec in less than a year. A periwinkle harvester drowned last December, and two fishermen drowned in April when their boat sank.

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