Story highlights Fishing vessels are searching for 15 people still thought to be missing

There were 132 people on board the ship, 78 of them Russians, Tass news agency says

The rest were foreign nationals from Myanmar, Ukraine, Lithuania and Vanuatu, it says

(CNN) At least 54 people have died and 15 others are missing after a Russian fishing vessel sank off the Kamchatka Peninsula, according to Russia's state-run Tass news agency.

More than 60 people were rescued Thursday from the chilly waters in Russia's Far East.

A Russian fishing vessel sank off the Kamchatka Peninsula

The Dalniy Vostok freezer trawler -- a commercial fishing vessel -- was carrying 132 people, the ministry said.

Of the people on board, 78 were Russians. The 54 others were foreign nationals from Myanmar, Ukraine, Lithuania and Vanuatu, according to the news agency, with the majority coming from Myanmar.

More than 20 fishing vessels are searching for the 15 people still thought to be missing, Tass said.