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, ...

This is the latest in a series to mark World Oceans Day which looks at how plastics and other pollutants are affecting the marine environment. Here, Bermuda Marine Debris Taskforce member Jennifer ...

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 ...

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 ...

GALICIA, Spain (AP) — At a humming factory in the Spanish town of O Carballino, workers sling dozens of limp octopuses into a metal cauldron, wincing as strings of slime splatter their aprons. Nearby, ...

Residents of Munje, a fishing village south of the Kenyan port of Mombasa, have established an octopus closure to ensure sustainable fishing. Octopus catches in the reefs just offshore had been ...