KOCHI: A team from the Marine Enforcement Wing of the Fisheries Department rescued 40 fishermen stranded at sea on Thursday.According to Fisheries assistant director Joice Abraham, the incident took place when a fishing net got entangled in the propeller of the motorised inboard fishing boat, ‘Andavan’.
The boat which ventured into the sea from Kalamukku harbour on Thursday morning . As all efforts to release the net and restart the engine failed, the fishermen send an SOS message to the shore.
The fisheries station at Munambam received the distress call around 12.30 pm and a team by civil police officer Siju AN led the rescue mission and located the boat 5.5 nautical miles west of Munambam harbour.