Octopuses Bring Windfalls and Anxieties to England's Southern Coast
Expecting his normal catch of plaice, turbot and Dover sole, Arthur Dewhirst was surprised when his nets spilled their contents onto his ship's deck earlier this year. Instead of shiny, flapping fish, hundreds of octopuses wriggled and writhed.
His first thought? ''Dollar signs! Dollar signs! Dollar signs!'' he recalled with a laugh, sitting in his trawler last month in the harbor at Brixham in Devon, England.
Across England's southern coast, fishing crews reported an extraordinary boom in octopus catches this summer...
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