More than a month since they went missing, the 10 fishermen, including a teenager, who went on a deep-sea fishing trip in the Bay of Bengal from Royapuram are yet to traced. Fishermen association president K Bharathi said the group set sail off the city coast on July 22 and were headed towards the Andhra Pradesh coast. While state fisheries authorities were informed about the missing fishermen, no effort has been taken to trace them, Bharathi said. However, S Pavithran, whose uncle Desappan is among the missing fishermen, denied this claim saying, complaints have been lodged with the government to trace the team. Officials also reached out to counterparts in Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, West Bengal and the Andaman and Nicobar islands, but have not been able to find the team. If the fishermen had reached an island where there is no human settlement or crossed the international maritime boundary limits, then only the Union government can help witht he search, Pavithran said. When contacted, state fisheries department officials reiterated that they have alerted their counterparts in Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and West Bengal. But haven’t recieved any information about the missing fishermen. The department had also alerted the Centre about the issue, an official said. The official further added that the department had written to the TN government to provide a daily allowance of 250 to the families of the missing fishermen. Relatives fear that the team’s boat may have hit a ship and capsized, cutting off all contact. An official said such incidents have occurred in the past. When contacted, a Coast Guard official said both ships and Coast Guard aircraft on daily deployment carry out surveillance in their jurisdiction to check any overstay of boats in Indian coastal waters. Apart from this, the Indian Coast Guard had intimated neighbouring countries to alert them if they come across any Indian boats staying for a longer time than usual in foreign waters. So far, we haven’t received any such information, the official said.