A report on 8 June 2009 said that a purple king crab were caught off Skogsvåg at Sotra south of Bergen in south Norway. A very important organic predator on the pink king crab, the enormous Pacific octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini, formerly named Octopus apollyon), will not take place in European waters. A fisherman in Honningsvåg (a town close to