Interactive Deployment Tool
Click anywhere on the cross-section above to target octopus releases or fortify soft sandy lagoons with artificial shelter structures.
Scientific Scenarios & Presets
Live Adriatic Telemetry
1,200
Crab Population
80,000
Octopus Cohort
0/day
Crabs Predated
0%
Lagoon Biomass Δ
Habitat Suppression Contrast
Ecological Modifiers
Hatchling Release Count
80,000
Crab Recruitment Rate
1.0x
Lagoon Sand Depth (Burrowing)
15 cm
Key Substrate Dynamic: While releasing 80,000 octopus hatchlings effectively controls crabs along crevice-rich rocky reefs, in soft sandy lagoons the hatchlings lack den shelters and suffer heavy pelagic drift mortality while blue crabs easily burrow beneath sediment.