Overview

• The Nuevo Salmón went down around 05:00 on Thursday about 150 nautical miles east of the Azores during a roughly 20‑day fishing campaign.
• All 11 aboard—three from A Guarda and eight Indonesians—were airlifted to São Miguel from a merchant vessel and did not need medical treatment.
• The crew evacuated to two liferafts after an uncontrollable water ingress, according to the skipper and the longline fleet association ORPAGU.
• Spain’s CNCS received the distress beacon and Portugal’s RCC Ponta Delgada coordinated the response, directing a nearby merchant—reported as CS Standard, with some reports citing MC Standard—before a Merlin helicopter completed the evacuation.
• Owner Pesquera Lelo Mar has started repatriation procedures for the foreign crew, and the 28‑metre steel longliner built in 1990 is a total loss.