Haines commercial fisherman Richard “Dick” Boyce was presumed drowned after falling off his gillnet boat early Wednesday morning near Mab Island, about 45 miles south of Haines.
Coast Guard Petty officials said Boyce ran toward the back of his vessel after its net got caught in the propeller. He tripped and fell overboard. After deckhand and daughter Karen Boyce went to the vessel’s steering station to declutch the engine, there was no sign of him…