{"id":2826,"date":"2025-06-11T13:02:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T13:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/11\/big-158k-haul-of-mediterranean-octopus-caught-near-channel-islands\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T13:02:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T13:02:35","slug":"big-158k-haul-of-mediterranean-octopus-caught-near-channel-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/11\/big-158k-haul-of-mediterranean-octopus-caught-near-channel-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Big \u00a3158k haul of Mediterranean octopus caught near Channel Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-06-11 13:02:34<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A Cornish trawler caught \u00a3158,000-worth of Octopus.<BR><br \/>\nEnterprise, a beam trawler based in Newlyn, Cornwall, England, were fishing in Mare Deep, an area near the Channel Islands, when they caught a 20 tonne-haul of Mediterranean octopus.<BR><br \/>\nSkipper George Stevens told BBC News: &#8220;The figures were adding up in my head and I thought, &#8216;This is going to be a good payday.&#8217;<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;I rang one of the crew while he was in the supermarket to tell him how much money I&#8217;d just put in his account. I imagine the staff saw some strange reactions.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nThe rise in octopus in British waters is having a big affect on the shellfish inustry because the eight-limbed animal eat the crabs and lobsters out of the fishing pots.<BR><br \/>\nBut George thinks he has done the shellfish industry a &#8220;favour&#8221; by getting rid of some octopus.<BR><br \/>\nHe said: &#8220;The unfortunate thing is that it&#8217;s been affecting the shellfish industry really badly. But one man&#8217;s famine is another man&#8217;s feast and, by getting rid of a few, we&#8217;ve done the industry a favour.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nGeorge said sorting out the octopus after they had been caught was challenging.<BR><br \/>\nHe explained: &#8220;These octopus have very big tentacles and they&#8217;re very grippy.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;My crew only have two arms each and these have eight legs. It was quite entertaining to watch them try to peel them off their bodies.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;They&#8217;re very fast-moving, were climbing down the elevator, climbing over the bins and up the walls.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;But once they went down to the fish room and touched a bit of ice, they became a bit more sedate.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-06-11 13:02:34 A Cornish trawler caught \u00a3158,000-worth of Octopus. Enterprise, a beam trawler based in Newlyn, Cornwall, England, were fishing in Mare Deep, an area near the Channel Islands, when&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2827,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2828,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions\/2828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}