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A South Shore lobster fishermen is dead after falling overboard on the weekend.
44 year old Jimmy Buchanan was working on a boat southeast of Cape Sable Island when he went in the water.
The crew got him back aboard and performed CPR but to no avail.
The RCMP says there’s nothing suspicious about Buchan’s death and it’s now been turned over to the Labour Department to investigate.
Much of the Maritimes was hit with blizzard conditions overnight. While numerous road fatalities and large scale power ouatges have been reported along the east coast of the US; no major accidents or power outages have been reported in the Maritimes as of 7am this morning. With snow still falling in many areas this morning, the following shows snowfall totals in the Maritimes for Saturday at:
Greenwood : 30.2 cm
Yarmouth : 24 cm
Halifax : 23 cm
Sydney : 12 cm
Saint John NB : 14 cm
Moncton NB : 13.4 cm
Charlottetown PEI : 15.6 cm