Canada ends the search for the 12 missing fishermen from the 'Villa de Pitanxo'

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The Canadian authorities have concluded this Wednesday the search and rescue tasks for the

from the Spanish fishing boat 'Villa de Pitanxo', which sank on Tuesday morning in the waters of the

.

A high-ranking Canadian official informed Efe that the

would announce at 4:00 p.m. local time (8:00 p.m. GMT) that the search for the twelve missing persons is concluded.

The decision of the Canadian authorities comes when the chances of finding alive some of the twelve disappeared are nil.

In fact, the Canadian authorities have prolonged the search and rescue efforts beyond the time indicated by the survival tables in the conditions that exist in the waters of the Great Bank of Newfoundland and that indicate that

.

The notification of the end of search and rescue operations comes shortly after the Rescue Coordination Center confirmed that the final number of recovered bodies is nine and not ten as initially reported.

The error is the result of a confusion during communication with one of the Portuguese fishing boats that participated in the rescue tasks.

After the clarification of the Canadian authorities, the number of fishermen rescued alive is three while

.

Twelve other people are still missing.

The three survivors are the ship's skipper,

;

his nephew

;

and a sailor originally from Ghana.

The three travel on the Spanish fishing boat 'Playa de Menduíña 2' which also recovered six bodies.

Another body is found in the Portuguese fishing boat 'Novo Virgem da Barca' and the two remaining dead have been picked up by the Canadian ship 'Nexus'.

The families of 'Pitanxo' ask that the search continue and demand responsibilities

Relatives of the crew members of the sunken trawler in Canadian waters have asked this Wednesday in Vigo

for the disappeared and to settle responsibilities after the shipwreck in the middle of the storm of this ship, based in

.

Kevin González

, son of Fernando, a 53-year-old Moañés, has said in statements to the press that the rescue device must continue with the work "until it can no longer".

This has been the request of Kevin, who is still waiting for news from his father, and who has also requested that what has happened to this freezer trawler in the North Atlantic be investigated, "not for revenge, so that it does not happen again".

has pronounced himself in the same way

, as his family is one of the most affected by the tragedy, since he has lost his brother

, who was enrolled with his nephews

.

The shipowner,

, has informed them that the bodies of Daniel and Diego, or Dieguito as he was known in his inner circle, are two of those recovered, while nothing is known about Edwin.

Daniel leaves a wife and two children aged 18 and 9.

Edwin has four.

Pablo lamented that despite the bad weather conditions, which they learned from their relatives, the crew had to get to work, while other boats dedicated to the halibut fishery, such as the 'Villa de Pitanxo', were waiting for the weather to the area improved.

"There are boats that were waiting for it to subside to be able to work," Pablo declared, and he dropped that it was not the first time that they had been ordered not to stop despite the very hostile conditions.

The result, "so many families in mourning", this family has complained.

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