The body of a 32-year-old fisherman, N. Raja of Siluvaipatti, who went missing on Wednesday, was retrieved on Friday evening.
After two days of search, the search team found the body floating 13 nautical miles off Thalamuthunagar coast, Taruvaikulam Inspector of Marine Police C. Muhesh Jeyakumar said on Saturday.
The search for Raja was conducted by the Coastal Security Group personnel who went in a fast interceptor boat, along with several fishermen in their fishing boats.
Preliminary investigations revealed that the victim slipped from a floating buoy at mid sea while he was engaged in fishing squid and drowned.
Neither the victim nor the other fishermen who went in a group wore safety equipment.
The post-mortem was conducted and the medical report is awaited.
Raja and eight other fishermen from Siluvaipatti near Taruvaikulam set out for squid fishing in a country boat at 4 a.m. on Wednesday and he was reported missing at 8 a.m.
Taruvaikulam Marine Police altered the ‘man missing’ case into a case of unnatural death under Section 174 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
Mr. Jeyakumar said a letter seeking details of prescribed limits of fishing by country boat was forwarded to the Department of Fisheries here since the victim and the country craft fishermen were involved in deep sea fishing at 13 nautical miles off the shore.
Neither the victim nor the other fishermen who went in a group wore safety equipment
