The bodies of two Korean and two Southeast Asian sailors who were aboard the trawler Oryong 501 were found in the western Bering Sea on Thursday.
The trawler owned by Sajo Industries and carrying 60 people sank on Monday while fishing for Alaska pollack.
Seven people were rescued and 20 bodies have now been found, including six Koreans, 12 Southeast Asians, and two unidentified bodies. Thirty-three remain missing.
The sinking of a trawler in the western Bering Sea on Monday could be recorded as the worst-ever disaster involving a Korean fishing boat. The Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that 52 people remain missing from the Oryong 501 despite an all-night search for survivors.
So far only one body has been recovered and seven crewmembers rescued.
Four Korean and Russian trawlers and a U.S. Coast Guard C-130 Hercules airplane searched the area for survivors, but only found four empty life boats that probably came from the Oryong 501.
Family members of the missing wait for news at Sajo headquarters in Busan on Tuesday. Russian rescue officials said one body was recovered wearing a life jacket, but further attempts at search and rescue were hampered by bad weather.
A spokesman for Sajo Industries, which operates the trawler, said strong winds and high waves are making it difficult just to navigate the waters.
Russia dispatched a transport aircraft and rescue vessel to the scene of the sinking, while Sajo will send six more fishing boats to assist in search and rescue operations. But chances of the crew surviving are growing extremely slim as temperatures dip to below -10 degrees Celsius.
Meanwhile, around 50 family members of the missing waited at Sajo's headquarters in the southern port city of Busan on Tuesday afternoon for any news of possible survivors. They complained that Sajo pushed the fishermen to work in rough waters aboard an aging trawler.
Officials for Italy's Tuscany region and the island of Giglio said on Monday they would seek a total of 220 million euros ($274 million) in damages from Costa Cruises, a unit of Carnival Corp., for the 2012 Concordia cruise liner disaster.
The Costa Concordia was carrying more than 4,000 passengers and crew when it struck rocks off the Tuscan island of Giglio and capsized, killing 32 people.
The capsized cruise liner Costa Concordia lies on its side during the "parbuckling" operation next to Giglio Island on Sept. 16, 2013. /Reuters The ship remained partially submerged near the port of the holiday island for more than two years before being raised and towed away this year in one of the largest and most complex maritime salvages ever completed.
"We will ask Costa for 30 million euros in damages to Tuscany's image," the region's president, Enrico Rossi, told a court in the Tuscan city of Grosseto, according to a statement.
Rossi said the region had registered a decline in tourism, and that Giglio had lost 45,000 visitors due to the disaster.
A consultant to Giglio's local government, Carlo Scarpa, asked the same court for 190 million euros in damages, most of it for tarnishing the island's image, according to a source present during the proceedings.
The two officials spoke during an ongoing trial against Concordia Captain Francesco Schettino, who is being tried for multiple charges, including manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship.
"To reconstruct the image of Tuscany as a top tourist destination will require years of work, substantial investments and costly national and international advertising campaigns," Rossi said.
Costa Cruises last year avoided a criminal trial by agreeing to pay a one million-euro fine to the Italian state, but victims and local administrations have pursued damages separately.
Shortly after the January 2012 shipwreck, Costa Cruises also agreed to pay about 11,000 euros to each of the more than 3,000 passengers for items lost and any psychological damages to passengers who suffered no physical injuries.
Sources involved in the trial say a verdict may be read during the first few months of next year.
