A large - and normally rare - type of octopus is being caught by fishermen in Devon and Cornwall in enormous numbers. So what ...

He said: “The octopus are eating all the crab. They are eating all the lobsters and all the scallops. “There isn’t going be any crabs – they are going to eat everything.

Animal advocates say it takes three pounds of fish or crab to produce one pound of octopus meat. Nueva Pescanova told NPR in 2024 that it planned to thoughtfully source its feed, like from ...

The population spike in the Mediterranean common octopus is a mixed blessing. Bad news if you want to catch crab or lobster, and doubly bad news if the octopus eats your crab or lobster and then ...

Barry Young, of Brixham Trawler Agents, described the influx as "an invasion" and said the octopus were "decimating the crab fishery at the minute". "At this morning's auction, we got 27 tonne of ...

But the lucrative market for the octopus - like most of our native fish and shellfish - lies across the Channel in continental Europe. The UK-EU deal is another mixed blessing for the South West.

Barry Young holds up a caught octopus at Brixham Fish Market Some fishermen in south-west England say an "invasion" of octopus and a local bylaw are "decimating" the Devon shellfish industry. The ...