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Show OCTOPUS BUMS MAN TO DEATH Fisherman Is Pulled From His Boat by Large Devilfish He Had Speared. IS DANGEROUS SPORT Devilfish After Capture Are Kept Allvo In Salt Water tt Supply Winter Win-ter Demand Among Pacific Coast Japanese. Sunrise Reach, Wash. Dragged from his rowbout by a glarvt devilfish which he had speured, Albert Gurnesa lost his life while several companion fishermen felt the searching tentacles of the big fish. The devilfish season Is at its height In the narrows off Gig Harbor, in this part of Puget sound, and fishermen declare the daily cutch is reiuurkuble for the size of the octopuses. About 40 grizzled veterans In open trawls are busy hauling In the traps and taking out the devilfish. The devilfish, devil-fish, after capture, are imprisoned In large tanks of sea water and kept alive to supply the winter demand among the Pacific coast Japanese. There Is an element of danger connected con-nected with this kind of fishing that lends spice to the work. Most of the , devilfish caught will weigh around SO to 40 pounds and vary in the spread of their tentacles from four to eight feet. This winter, htiwever, fishermen have brought in e::tra large octopuses. The one which dragged Ganiess from the trawl measured 10 to 20 feet across the spread of legs. Prosaic Occupation. Catching the devilfish Is a prosaic occupation. In fact, the fish cntch , themselves. The traps, spaced to the depth of wntcr from five to fifty fathoms, fath-oms, are fastened to long lines laid on the hot torn. Some stretch out 10 miles Into t lie sound, the average being be-ing three to four miles. The trap re-bembk's re-bembk's a small, loosely built barrel which Is open at one end and baited with clams. After the fish has enterjd and devoured the clams, It generally reclines In a tightly drawn bundle to t-njoy perfect digestion. Fishermen In truuls and dories row over the trapping trap-ping area to haul up the snares. The devilfish remains In the s.-vluded shelter shel-ter from sheer lar.lness, until exposed to the air. Then there la a sudden DmaflrJ From Hit Boat, sprint; to lift' nml the wU: :lln of thu It iitf triitiK'lru 1 lhriatriiin. The ortopn.s Is Iiiinifilii.K'ly spcurt'd, hut ninny nro tci.:u'I.u)H nnuiIi to flfc'ht mnny mlnulrs. , Octopus incut la worth rents n pound on tho noi tliu r-tcrn ninrkct. |