The fishing vessel said the body came up in the fishing nets around 40 miles off of the Massachusetts coast, the DA said. The body “was wrapped and in a state of decomposition,” the DA’s office said, which is with the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for an autopsy.

A wrapped body that was snagged last week by fishermen off the coast of Massachusetts is now believed to be a woman who was 'buried at sea.'

The body of a woman was caught in the nets of a fishing boat off the coast of Massachusetts last week, and officials now believe she was buried at sea.

Authorities said that the deceased person, a woman, is unlikely to be identified and found there were "no indications of foul play."