Details of the July 4 drowning of fisherman Richard “Dick” Boyce have emerged in a recently released investigation report from the U.S. Coast Guard.
Boyce fell from his commercial fishing boat, the Eleanor S., around 5 a.m. July 4 while gillnet fishing near Mab Island, about 45 miles south of Haines. His daughter and deckhand Karen Boyce was the only other person aboard at the time.
Coast Guard investigators determined factors leading to Boyce’s fall…
