An octopus sign at the Rockfish seafood market and restaurant at the harbour in Brixham. — Andrew Testa/The New York Times
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 in the harbour at Brixham in Devon, England, last month.
