A 34-f00t gillnetter with roughly 500 litres of diesel onboard sank Monday morning off the West Coast of Vancouver Island.

A Canadian Coast Guard spokesperson told the Westerly B次元官网网址 the vessel was actively fishing in the Alberni Inlet near Hocking Point around 3:15 a.m. B次元官网网址渨hen it got caught on rocks as the tide was receding. The vessel started to lean and sink.B次元官网网址�

No injuries were reported and the Canadian Coast Guard and Western Canada Marine Response Corporation continue to respond to the incident.

B次元官网网址淐CGB次元官网网址檚 Bamfield lifeboat station crew was the first on scene this morning and they observed a small non-recoverable light sheen about four cables south of the vessel, but no pollution was observed around the vessel itself,B次元官网网址� the spokesperson wrote. B次元官网网址淭he lifeboat crew have applied containment boom around the vessel as a precautionary measure.B次元官网网址�

They added that the vesselB次元官网网址檚 owner has hired a contractor and they will be on-scene on Tuesday to salvage the vessel.

andrew.bailey@westerlynews.ca
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