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Thursday, December 2, 2010

Grand Manan Family Wants Answers In Meeting With Fisheries Minister

















(Gary Austin and Miriam Cossaboom)
        (Photo by Brian McLain)

The family of missing Grand Manan fishermen Corey and Harold Cossaboom are demanding answers why their boat sank off St. Martins and hopes to get some action at a meeting tomorrow with Federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea.

Corey's sister Trish Greene says they want to find out why the boat sank and is also frustrated that 7 weeks after human remains first washed up on shore along Grand Manan, there's still no identification.

Gary Austin, who once operated a diving company, says a single engine plane crashed into the Bay of Fundy off St. Martins more than twenty years ago but was intact and is likely somewhere at the bottom which would be hazardous for scallop draggers.

Austin says if the plane had broken up on impact with the water, it would have been better for fishermen.