Hearing about the Giant Pacific Octopus always reminds me of the story about the guy who found a novel way to go Octopus hunting when hunting them was illegal.
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/20/magazine/the-octopus-that...
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/20/magazine/the-octopus-that...
A clarification: from what I can tell reading the article, hunting octopus was not illegal, but there were restrictions against big commercial style net and pot fishing of octopus.
I liked how the article juxtaposed the (presumed good) hip locavore restaurant vs the (presumed bad) redneck that just wades in and engages in octafisticuffs.
Nothing novel about it. Just breaking rules and conventions to kill a creature for food.
He killed it and doomed its babies.
The article was written by someone clearly amoral about the whole issue.