A 57-year-old Haines fisherman died from heart disease, not paralytic shellfish poisoning as previously suspected.
Kate Saunders, wife of Mike Saunders, said an autopsy by the state medical examiner’s office found as much as 90 percent of her husband’s heart was blocked and that he likely died of arrhythmia arising from previous heart damage.
“He may have had smaller heart attacks that we didn’t know about or he hadn’t noticed,” Saunders said.
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