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January 22, 2008

1 dead, 1 sought after New Bedford Harbor accident

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. -- A fisherman’s body has been recovered from New Bedford Harbor, and a search for a second man who also went into the water has extended into the afternoon.

Executive director Kristin Decas of New Bedford’s Harbor Development Commission says three men had been trying to board a fishing vessel at a pier, when two slipped and fell in.

New Bedford Police Captain Joseph Cordeiro says a man’s body was recovered after a 911 call at 3:40 a.m. Authorities were searching off the pier for the other man.

Identities weren’t immediately released.

Decas says the men worked on the vessel Arcturus, which is owned by a company in Maine and has been fishing out of New Bedford for years.

Decas says the apparent accident is a tremendous loss for the industry.

-- The Associated Press

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