While the commercial fishing vessel Yankee Rose had been operating for years out of Provincetown, its owner and crew are from the New Bedford area.

That includes Angel Luis Nieves, whose family says he loved what he did for a living.

Makayla and Jose Nieves told 12 News their brother Angel, who was the oldest of four siblings, started fishing with his father at a young age.

They describe the 37-year-old as a devoted father of four whose family meant everything to him.

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