The search for a missing New Brunswick fisher continues with local help.
Members of various local First Nations, including We’koqma’q, Paqtnkek and Eskasoni, are helping with the search for Craig “Jumbo” Sock, who has been missing- and presumed dead- since the FV Tyhawk from New Brunswick’s Elsipogtog First Nation took on water and sank off the coast of Cheticamp April 3.
Four crew members were rescued when the ship went down; one of the four was later pronounced dead in hospital.
Annie Bernard-Daisley, the chief of the We’koqma’q First Nation, tells The Hawk they know when and where support is needed.
“You don’t even ask, it’s just there- we just rally together, it’s something that’s not spoken about, we just do it,” she says. “Being indigenous, it doesn’t matter if you’re a Mi’kmaw, if you’re a Cree, whatever you are- we’re going to support everybody.”
Sock was a band councillor in the Elsipogtog First Nation, and the captain of the vessel.
Bernard-Daisley says local First Nations members have joined the search off the coasts of Inverness and Antigonish counties.
“I believe it’s going to probably continue until he’s found,” she says. “I know the hearts of our people, they want to bring him home- bring him home to his parents, his community, his wife, his children, his whole entire family.”
Bernard-Daisley says they want Elsipogtog residents to know the local First Nations are rallying around them, and they’re offering whatever support they need while they’re away from home.
She says it would be nice for DFO vessels to help with the search.
