TRAGIC END...Fisherman drowns on expedition (MIRROR, LEAD STORY, AUGUST 21, 2010)

From Moses Dotsey Aklorbortu, Takoradi

what could have passed as a normal fishing expedition by a young fisherman in New Takoradi turned tragic when he fell off his boat and drowned due to high currents.
According to the police, the body of the deceased, Egya Amoasi 21, who went to fishing with his peers in separate boats, had been retrieved after three days underwater.
The police said the deceased and his colleagues had anchored their boats and were fishing with hook and line. Amoasi’s friends returned home the following day without him.
The police said the chief and other opinion leaders dispatched some people to search for him, but they only found his boat anchored.
They looked round and could not trace him but suspected he might have drowned. They sent his boat to the shore and reported to the chief that he was still missing.
After a long fruitless wait for his body to be washed ashore, the elders poured libation and asked the gods to search and release him. His body was found after three days in a state of decomposition.
The body has since been deposited at the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital pending autopsy while the Takoradi Central Police continue their investigations.
According to the police the practice of fishing with hook and line was common in the New Takoradi Fishing community where people use smaller boats, hook and line for fishing and that the catch from such expeditions were very expensive.