A report on 8 June 2009 claimed that a pink king crab had been caught off Skogsvåg at Sotra south of Bergen in south Norway. A crucial purely natural predator in the purple king crab, the large Pacific octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini, previously termed Octopus apollyon), won't come about in European waters. A fisherman in Honningsvåg (a town near