A report on 8 June 2009 reported that a crimson king crab had been caught off Skogsvåg at Sotra south of Bergen in south Norway. An essential purely natural predator on the crimson king crab, the giant Pacific octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini, formerly known as Octopus apollyon), does not manifest in European waters. A fisherman in Honningsvåg (a c