The boat belonging to a fisherman who went missing after venturing out on the waters of Lake Erie from a Port Burwell marina earlier this week has been found in Ohio.
OPP confirmed the white 21-foot Striper vessel was located by a person walking along the shoreline in Madison Township, Ohio just before 9 a.m. Thursday.
“The United States Coast Guard responded and boarded the vessel and found it to be unoccupied,” police said in a statement.
Madison is located roughly nearly 100 km from the Port Burwell marina. The area where the boat ran aground is a choppy, rough spot where Lake Erie waves crash upon the rocky shoreline.
Following the discovery, Madison Township police tweeted that “numerous Canadian search and rescue aircraft” would be operating in the area.
Police, firefighters, the Canadian Coast Guard and Coast Guard Auxiliary Unit, and civilians have been searching Lake Erie since the man failed to return to Big Otter Marina Tuesday night. He had set off in the water earlier the same day.
The search for the missing fisherman in Lake Erie will continue on Friday, police said.
A small vessel reported missing two days ago in Canadian waters ran aground today on the Madison Township shoreline. Numerous Canadian search and rescue aircraft were dispatched and were operating in the area. The boater remains missing and search efforts are on-going. pic.twitter.com/iBl1XB5g73
— Madison Township PD (@MadisonTwpPD) August 11, 2022
