English-Dutch translations for octopus

octopus
In Mauritanië is de hoeveelheid gevangen octopus de afgelopen vier jaar met de helft verminderd. In Mauritania, catches of octopus have halved in the past four years. Ook wordt opgemerkt dat er sprake is van overbevissing van de octopus en de heek en dat hier beperkende maatregelen nodig zijn. The report also notes that octopus and hake fisheries are over-exploited and reductions in effort are needed. Hét voorbeeld bij uitstek hiervan levert het ongehinderde optreden van Delta Holding in Servië met als "octopus" haar invloedrijke directeur Miroslav Mišković. The prime example of this is the unimpeded rise of Delta Holding in Serbia, with its influential director Miroslav Mišković as the 'octopus' at its head.
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Er zijn op dit moment niet minder dan 3.000 tot 4.000 kano's die op inktvis vissen, wat zij bovendien nog eens in het paaigebied langs de kust doen.There are now some three or four thousand canoes fishing for octopus in coastal waters, which are, moreover, the reproduction zone. Those are the two problems, therefore.

Any of several marine molluscs of the family Octopodidae, having no internal or external protective shell or bone and eight arms each covered with suckers
An organization that has many powerful branches controlled from the centre
To put one's fingers, hands or arms in many things or places at roughly the same time
To spread out in long arms or legs in many directions
To plug a large number of devices into a single electric outlet
To grow in use vastly beyond what was originally intended
To hunt and catch octopuses
To behave like an octopus

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