It is barely lunchtime, but Alan Steer, 56, and his crew have already pulled in close to two tons of octopus off the coast of Dartmouth, Devon. A rusted metal tank behind the cabin displays a knot of ...

From a fishing trawler in the Adriatic, Italian scientists gently release thousands of tiny octopuses in the hope of fighting an invasive crab species that has devastated local fisheries. A team from ...

Italy has come up with a new weapon in its war against an invasive species of crab – an army of voracious octopuses. Tens of thousands of octopuses are being released at sea to take on blue crabs, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blue crabs arrived in the Mediterranean decades ago to wreak havoc in Italy's clam-producing northeast (Stefano RELLANDINI) From a ...