Fishing boat News

The boat was flooding and its engines had stopped working approximately 24 Nautical Miles from Porbandar.

The British-flagged tanker Stena Impero was in an accident with a fishing boat before being detained on Friday, Iran`s Fars news agency reported on Saturday, quoting an official.

Five persons have gone missing after a fishing boat capsized off the Dalian coast in China's northeast Liaoning province, state media reported today.

The boat, which was taken to the southeastern port of Mangalia, is the fourth to have been found carrying migrants in the Black Sea since mid-August.

The Indian Navy has identified the vessel that rammed a fishing boat off the coast here on Saturday as a cargo ship belonging to a Hong Kong shipping company and are now on its trail, officials said on Sundayh.

The accident occurred 35 to 40 nautical miles away from the coast in the International shipping channel.

According to the fishermen, there was no warning by the cargo ship and after hitting the fishing boat, it sailed away without stopping, which according to maritime laws is a grave crime.

Two fishermen were killed and one went missing after a cargo ship flying the Panama flag hit a fishing boat in the sea off Kochi in Kerala early on Sunday, the authorities said. Eleven others in the fishing boat were rescued.

The boat carrying 14 fishermen was hit by the ship at around 2 AM around 20 nautical miles off Kochi coast.

Bangladesh Navy personnel have retrieved five bodies and rescued two fishermen alive from the Bay of Bengal, where a day earlier an Indian fishing boat capsized with 17 crew on board.