Search Suspended for Nova Scotia Fisherman Missing Off Cape Sable Island, NS

An RCAF Hercules aircraft scours the waters as members of a ground search and rescue team walk along the shore of the Bay of Fundy in Hillsburn, N.S., in an area where empty life-rafts from a scallop fishing vessel were reported on Dec. 15, 2020. Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press

The search for a missing Nova Scotia fisherman who went overboard on Boxing Day morning was suspended early Tuesday afternoon.

Lt. Commander Len Hickey said that despite a robust search effort that carried on overnight Monday and into Tuesday morning, rescue crews were unable to locate the missing man. The file will be handed over to the RCMP to be treated as a missing person case, he said.