A fisherman from Jagna, Bohol, was rescued after his fishing boat partially sank on Sunday, Aug. 2. (Photo courtesy of PCG Eastern Bohol)

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol— A 40-year-old fisherman from Jagna town was rescued after his fishing boat was partially sank in on Sunday.

Lt. (j.g.) Kurt Daryl Aplal, station commander of the Coast Guard Station Eastern Bohol, identified the fisherman as Ronald Aclan, a resident of Barangay Bunga Mar, Jagna.

Aplal said Aclan went fishing earlier that day and was later found by Coast Guard personnel clinging to his half-submerged boat in the waters between Valencia and Garcia Hernandez at 9:55 a.m.

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