{"id":732388,"date":"2026-06-12T17:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T17:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/732388\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T17:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T17:11:12","slug":"dfo-visiting-spaniards-bay-to-assess-whale-carcass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/732388\/","title":{"rendered":"DFO Visiting Spaniard\u2019s Bay to Assess Whale Carcass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dead-whale-spaniards-bay-via-mark-hancock.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"DFO Visiting Spaniard's Bay to Assess Whale Carcass\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Via Mark Hayward on Facebook)<\/p>\n<p>DFO officials are visiting Spaniard\u2019s Bay today to assess the situation after the carcass of a whale washed up on a beach in the town yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>The carcass, which appears to have drifted in from Bell Island, is within a short distance of the local rec centre and school and the town is trying to figure out what to do with the unwelcome arrival as the weather warms up <\/p>\n<p>Residents and visitors are asked to keep their distance from the dead whale as it could pose a biological hazard.  <\/p>\n<p>The Whale Rescue and Strandings group says it was called by the Coast Guard on Sunday about the carcass which was first spotted by the Bell on Bell Island. <\/p>\n<p>Julie Huntington tells VOCM News that the animal had been dead for some time, and that it appears to have died at depth before somehow coming to the surface. <\/p>\n<p>She says it had gear wrapped around its tail and mouth and may have become entangled in poor weather. <\/p>\n<p>DFO says it has a five-year whale-safe gear strategy that guides the use of fishing gear to prevent whale entanglement, while supporting a sustainable fishery.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (Via Mark Hayward on Facebook) DFO officials are visiting Spaniard\u2019s Bay today to assess the situation after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-732388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}