Karachi: The fishermen trained by the World Wild Fund (WWF) for Nature – Pakistan have spotted various species of the blanket octopus, stated to be a rare breed of the order Octopoda, in three different areas along the coast of Sindh and Balochistan, according to news sources.
As per the WWF-Pakistan’s official statement, a 0.8-metre-long blanket octopus was spotted in the offshore waters of Balochistan. This was the first live authentic report. Afterwards, some fishermen caught the blanket octopus, while fishing 45 nautical miles south of Ormara, but released it back safely upon discovering the rare find.
WWF-Pakistan’s Technical Advisor Muhammad Moazzam Khan said that this octopus breed was not discovered in Pakistan until now, and called it a new addition to the national biodiversity. He explained that these octopuses were oceanic cephalopods found in surface-to-mid-waters in subtropical and tropical oceans. The rainbow-hued octopus gets its name from the sheets of webs that stretch between its tentacles.
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