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 determined the body belonged to a woman in her 60s who had numerous cancerous tumors, the DA's office said.

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

Authorities said a body found in a fishing vessel's nets last week was that of a woman in her 60s who appeared to have been embalmed.

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.

No foul play is suspected in the case of the "wrapped" deceased body which was pulled from the ocean by a fishing crew off the coast of Massachusetts last week, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office.