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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 ...

A dramatic cry of “Octopus!” echoes across the deck of the Sea Eagle vessel as its crew hauls a plastic pot from the seabed off northern Greece, revealing a squirming cephalopod. The creature, moments ...

"Octopus!" The crew of Sea Eagle shouted "Octopus!" as a cephalopod crawled out of a pot of plastic they had dug up from the seabed near northern Greece. The octopus was caught in a trap that was ...