This Underwater Sculpture Garden Protects Italian Fishing Grounds

By Ruth Sherlock,

Christine Arrasmith

Published July 30, 2025 at 9:23 AM EDT

A student from an art high school in Grosseto is about to throw into the water a work created to offer octopuses a home as an alternative to illegal fishing traps.

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Ruth Sherlock

Ruth Sherlock is an International Correspondent with National Public Radio. She's based in Beirut and reports on Syria and other countries around the Middle East. She was previously the United States Editor for the Daily Telegraph, covering the 2016 US election. Before moving to the US in the spring of 2015, she was the Telegraph's Middle East correspondent.

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Christine Arrasmith

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