It's been a bumper year for octopuses off the Cornish south coast, with one fisherman saying he caught 150 in one day last month. Chris Chesterfield said he would normally expect to catch around six in a year.
Fishermen have witnessed large numbers of octopuses in their lobster pots and cuttlefish traps, CornwallLive reports. Cornwall Wildlife Trust believes there is an octopus population boom.
Matt Slater, marine conservation officer at Cornwall Wildlife Trust, said: “I got really excited when I started receiving messages from our Seasearch divers – not only because sightings of these striking animals are few and far between, but because they’d seen several of them on one dive.
