A search is underway for a young fisher who went missing on the water in a small municipality about 70 kilometres northeast of Montreal.
Quebec provincial police say the fisher went missing in the St. Lawrence River by the community of St-Ignace-de-Loyola, Que., but they wouldn’t confirm reports he was 16 years old.
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Police were called to the scene about 8:15 a.m. and deployed a number of resources to help find him.
Nicolas Scholtus-Champagne, a police spokesman, says a helicopter and a nautical unit were working with local firefighters and the Canadian Coast Guard. Police canine units were also searching the shore.
Locals took to Facebook to ask whether anyone with a boat would be willing to join the search.
Scholtus-Champagne says it’s not clear whether the fisher was wearing a life jacket.
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