CLARKS HARBOUR, N.S. – A 64-year-old fisherman was killed on March 9 in an apparent accident while hauling lobster pots off the coast of Cape Sable Island. According to local RCMP reports, the boat captain was working with two other fishers when the trawl line became tangled with the hauler; when the man tried to free the line, it entangled him and pulled him overboard. Although the victim, whom media reports have identified as Captain Larry Wayne Sears, was wearing a personal floatation device, he died of his injuries after another fishing boat, responding to a distress call, pulled him out of the water. “My heart goes out to this man’s family, friends and loved ones,” N.S. Labour and Advanced Education Minister Kelly Regan said in a press statement on March 10. “I want to assure them that our investigators will help find out why this happened, and I hope, in some way, this provides them some comfort.” The province’s Ministry of Labour noted in a press release that its oh&s division was investigating the incident, as was the RCMP. This was N.S.’s first fishing fatality of 2015, the ministry added.