Effort underway to recover fishing boat High Roller III

A salvage operation is ongoing here in Conception Bay after this abandoned fishing vessel drifted onto the breakwater here in Beta Verde. The High Roller III is a 15-meter fishing vessel out of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. The vessel was chartered to harvest seafood in Newfoundland and Labrador waters. We don't know all the details, but the vessel ran into trouble over the weekend. A Coast Guard ship took the vessel under tow, but we're told the situation worsened and the crew was forced to leave their vessel there were no injuries for some reason the tow line was cut as the High Roller was being towed to the shipyard in Harbour Grace for repairs high winds drove the vessel onto the breakwater on saturday luckily the vessel is easily accessible from the shoreline and a specialized truck was brought in to pump most of the fuel from the high Roller III in order to prevent an environmental incident but the vessel grounded next to the the seawater intake station for the Quinlan Brothers Seafood Plant. Owner Robin Quinlan told CBC News he shut down operations here at the plant over fears the plant's water system could be contaminated with diesel fuel. The plant was preparing to process farmed salmon from Placentia Bay. The vessel's owner did not respond to messages. Terry Roberts, CBC News, Beta Verde.