The Changos octopus (Octopus mimus) is distributed along the Eastern Pacific from Baja California (Mexico) to Central Chile (Cardoso et al. 2004)(Pliego-Cardenas et al. 2020). Samples taken from Paita (Peru) to Cifuncho (Chile) suggest that specimens derive from one homogenous population with low genetic diversity (Pardo-Gandarillas et al. 2018). Beside, Pliego-Cardenas et al. 2020 suggested that Peru should be considered as a management unit in the Eastern Pacific.

Piura region has the major percentage (between 31.2 and 43.4%) of accumulated landings of O. mimus in Peru (Guevara-Carrasco and Bertrand 2017) (IMARPE 2015). Most of the captures from this region, as much as Lambayeque region, come from Lobos de Afuera and Lobos de Tierra islands (IMARPE 2015).