On Wednesday, three crew members were killed as a Japanese mechanized fishing boat capsized after colliding with a 662-ton Russian ship off Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido, domestic media reported.
Two crew members of the fishing vessel were rescued by the Japan Coast Guard (JCG).
According to the Japan Coast Guard, the five-crew-member fishing boat, which belongs to a fishery cooperative based in Hokkaido's Monbetsu, was catching hairy crabs when the collision occurred at around 6:00 a.m. local time.
A statement from the JCG said: “One of the Japanese crew members found and reported safe. The coast guard ship recovered three bodies."
On the other hand, the Russian massive vessel, named Amur, with 23 crew members, was transporting seafood to Monbetsu, which is located in Okhotsk Subprefecture, from Sakhalin in Russia's Far East, the coast guard revealed.
Among the three victims, one was the chief engineer in his 60s and the two others were in their 30s, according to the Japan Coast Guard.
Notably, a dense fog advisory had been issued in the sea off Monbetsu port at the time by Japanese authorities.
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