Crew pulls thousands of illegal traps, saving 1,500 octopuses Illegal traps threaten octopus population and increase sea pollution Octopus overfishing extends to Italy, Spain, Portugal THERMAIC GULF, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...