Deadliest Catch’s Tony Lara has died at 50

The sheriff says Lara died early Saturday morning at a private residence in Sturgis.

Tony Lara, a commercial fishing ship captain who appeared on Discovery’s reality show “Deadliest Catch”, died Saturday while attending the annual motorcycle rally in Sturgis, South Dakota. An autopsy to determine the specific cause of death is pending.

8, Deadliest Catch star Tony Lara died in his sleep at age 50. He worked on the boat for 10 years and then ran it during salmon tendering.

There is probably no one out there more suited to take the helm of the Cornelia Marie than Tony Lara. He’s credited with knowing the “Cornelia Marie inside and out”, and helped build the boat when it was first outfitted for crabbing. He knows the Cornelia Marie inside and out.

Lara’s death comes less than a month after Joe McMahon, a producer on Deadliest Catch, was shot steps from his home in California.