{"id":330085,"date":"2025-12-22T17:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T17:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/330085\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T17:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T17:03:07","slug":"octopus-numbers-on-south-coast-increase-massively-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/330085\/","title":{"rendered":"Octopus numbers on south coast increase massively in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The species of octopus people had been spotting were octopus vulgaris, a   Mediterranean species native to the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However they&#8217;re rarely seen, as their numbers are usually so low.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Wildlife Trust recorded a whopping 1500% increase in sightings from Penzance to South Devon this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matt Slater, a marine conservation officer at Cornwall Wildlife Trust told the Guardian newspaper: &#8220;When we added up the numbers, approximately 233,000 octopuses were caught in UK waters this year \u2013 that&#8217;s a huge increase from what you would normally expect.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The species of octopus people had been spotting were octopus vulgaris, a Mediterranean species native to the UK.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-330085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}