{"id":736333,"date":"2026-06-14T14:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T14:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/736333\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T14:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T14:27:11","slug":"spaniards-bay-whale-towed-out-to-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/736333\/","title":{"rendered":"Spaniard\u2019s Bay Whale Towed Out to Sea"},"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-pam-parsons.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Spaniard's Bay Whale Towed Out to Sea\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Submitted by Pam Parsons)<\/p>\n<p>A town in Conception Bay North has gotten rid of what could have become a smelly mess on a beach near the rec centre.<\/p>\n<p>The whale that became entangled in fishing gear deep in the ocean floated onto the beach in Back Cove, Spaniard\u2019s Bay\u00a0a few days ago, leaving the town in a conundrum. It was uncertain as to just how to get rid of the animal as leaving it to scavenger prey was not an option.<\/p>\n<p>There were concerns about towing it out to sea because of marine navigation issues, but local government got the appropriate approvals and found a contractor to do just that according to the MHA for Harbour Grace-Port de Grave, Pam Parsons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt drew a lot of traffic to the area but, hopefully this is the end of it. It\u2019s sad when marine life becomes entangled in fishing gear in the ocean,\u201d remarked MHA Parsons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (Submitted by Pam Parsons) A town in Conception Bay North has gotten rid of what could have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-736333","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\/736333","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=736333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}