ST. JOHN’S - An eastern Newfoundland town is figuring out what to do with a humpback whale carcass that washed up on a beach entangled in rope.

Tammy Oliver is the mayor of Spaniard’s Bay, a community of about 2,600 people about 40 kilometres west of St. John’s, across Conception Bay. She said the animal was not yet a full-grown adult, and it has rope wrapped around its mouth and tail.