The body of a crew member of a missing Gloucester-based scalloper was found in the Atlantic Ocean on Friday, along with an empty life raft and a small amount of debris, the US Coast Guard said. The ...

Seven people were reported aboard the Lily Jean, a fishing boat featured on the History Channel miniseries Nor'easter Men.

Modelling of ocean currents suggests that larvae from Guernsey, which saw its own octopus bloom in 2024, "likely contributed ...

The study explores the impact of octopus predating on shellfish after a survey of fishers.

Between £6.7 million and £9.4 million worth of common octopus was landed on the south coast of the UK from January to August ...

Six of the incidents, not including Friday’s tragedy involving the Lily Jean out of Gloucester, have occurred since 2017.

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 ...

The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), a global nonprofit organization that works to end overfishing, today announced 2025 year-end data showing that 90% of U.S. fisheries by volume are MSC certified ...

AN octopus invasion is wiping out shellfish in British waters — threatening the livelihoods of dozens of fishermen. More than ...

'the octopus bloom is not a blip - it’s a sustained threat' ...

Roy Scheffer’s hands mapped a different era of the Martha’s Vineyard waterfront. Etched by decades of running thick, tar-treated longline and calloused from the rough skin of swordfish, Roy was at the ...