Rotting whale carcass haunts Northern Peninsula community

by CBC news — July 17, 2009


People in Pines Cove, N.L., say a rotting whale carcass that the province had towed out to sea months ago has come back, and the stink is unbearable.

People in Pines Cove, N.L., say a rotting whale carcass that the province had towed out to sea months ago has come back, and the stink is unbearable.

At the end of April, a 10-metre long whale carcass rolled up on a beach near the community on the province's Great Northern Peninsula.

Audrey Parrill says it was exactly 37 steps away from her door. She counted.

"I figured that was too close for comfort for a whale here, 35 feet [10 metres long], to rot next to my house," said Parrill.

She called to have it taken away and the provincial Department of Government Services paid a contractor to remove the whale. It was towed to an uninhabited island.

 

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