A report on 8 June 2009 claimed that a crimson king crab had been caught off Skogsvåg at Sotra south of Bergen in south Norway. A very important purely natural predator on the purple king crab, the giant Pacific octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini, previously called Octopus apollyon), doesn't occur in European waters. A fisherman in Honningsvåg (a tow