The common octopus, Octopus vulgaris, is a very important demersal fishery resource targeted, among other fleets, by freezer bottom-trawlers in the Mauritanian Economic Exclusive Zone (MEEZ). From August 2010 to September 2011, total of 1696 octopuses caught MEEZ where analysed. Many organisms trapped into octopuses’ mantle were found and identified, which are jointly swept while trawling catch...
