Dragged behind a canoe, the lure shined in the sunlight as its bristles created a trailing ripple to entice aku to strike. Fishing for he’e, or octopus, involved a dance between the he’e and a ...

A traditional fishing method was to lure it out of its lair with tiger cowry shells that had very specific markings. The octopus is still considered a food source by many cultures today.

Indeed, Octopus tetricus, known colloquially as ... along with scavenged trash like beer bottles and lead fishing lures, in order to better stabilize the sediment for excavating dens.

But they leave behind mounds of discarded shells from their prey, as well as junk they've scavenged, like beer bottles and lead fishing lures ... can only be called octopus evictions.

So we think these could be the oldest octopus lures in the entire Pacific region and, in fact, the oldest in the world,” said Michael T. Carson, an archaeologist with the Micronesian Area ...