The point i am trying to make is that the giant pacific octopus as a species has nothing to fear from a 19 year old lad with a speargun, if that young man lived to be a hundred he would not kill a fraction of the kill count of the octopus in its short 5 years, the GPO, does not need protecting by people, but the young man does need protecting, since he has been summarily tried convicted and sentenced, by the media. also the GPO was there to feed no other reason.