Another dead 12-metre Bryde’s whale was found in False Bay near Cape Town last week after becoming entangled in octopus trap ropes. The traps have been in use by a single company since 1998, ...

STORY: Home to the nation’s largest octopus habitat, Greece’s Thracian Sea is also blanketed by illegal plastic octopus traps. The practice threatens octopus populations, fuels marine pollution, and ...

Dec. 7 (UPI) --A group of shocked fishermen in the Florida Keys captured video of a clever octopus using their live trap as its own personal buffet. The video, filmed Sunday in Key West, shows the ...

A dramatic cry of “Octopus!” echoes across the deck of the Sea Eagle vessel as its crew hauls a plastic pot from the seabed off northern Greece, revealing a squirming cephalopod. The creature, moments ...

Seventy traps rigged with bait, used for illegal octopus fishing, were found and seized by the Inland Waters Squad of the Oristano Police Headquarters in the Arborea marina. The equipment, completely ...

Off the coast of Eilat in Israel, a big blue octopus propels itself forward, flailing its tentacles, with a troop of groupers fish following it. At some point during its hunting trip, the octopus ...

THERMAIC GULF, Greece (Reuters) -"Octopus!" shouted the crew of the Sea Eagle vessel as a slippery cephalopod squirmed out of a plastic pot they had hauled from the seabed off northern Greece. The ...

A Sea Shepherd crew member on board the ‘Sea Eagle’ prepares to release an octopus recovered from a makeshift trap (Reuters) A dramatic cry of “Octopus!” echoes across the deck of the Sea Eagle vessel ...