AN octopus invasion is wiping out shellfish in British waters — threatening the livelihoods of dozens of fishermen. More than 400 tons of the creatures — five times the average — were landed in one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A boom in the population of common octopus in Guernsey waters has wiped more than £500,000 off the value of local shellfish ...

When veteran fisherman Brian Tapper checked his 1,200 crab pots in waters off southwest England during this year's crabbing season, he got a series of unwelcome surprises. At first, in March and April ...

Cold spray whipped off the ropes as a diesel engine throbbed in the background. One by one, empty shellfish pots came over the side of the fishing boat, occasionally containing the remnants of crab ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Octopus bloom is continuing in Devon and Cornwall. Image courtesy: Plymouth City Council The plight of Devon fishers whose ...

A shellfish caught by a fisherman in Suruga Bay, Japan, was not what it first appeared, according to Storyful Video shows an octopus emerge from a shell and then leap off the side of a boat to return ...

Modelling of ocean currents suggests that larvae from Guernsey, which saw its own octopus bloom in 2024, "likely contributed to the UK surge", the report added. An octopus bloom may reoccur again ...