Plea to trace missing fishermen Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA Family members of 12 missing fishermen submitted a petition to Kanniyakumari Collector M. Aravind on Saturday seeking immediate steps to start the search operation to locate their breadwinners who went missing after venturing into the sea for fishing in a mechanised boat on May 5. According to Rev. Fr. Churchill of South Asian Fishermen Fraternity, 16 fishermen, including 12 from Kanniyakumari district and four from West Bengal, had gone for multi-day deep sea stay fishing in the boat of one Satish from Kozhicode from their base, Beypur. Following recent alert on cyclone Tauktae in the Arabian Sea, the fishermen in deep sea reached the shores.