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The Devil Fish and Octopus Wrestling

The Devil Fish and Octopus Wrestling

From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library What was a life and death struggle in 1913 became a weird form of recreation in Puget Sound in the 1950s-1960s and then an environmentally taboo practice by the 1970s. I am talking, of course, about octopus wrestling. Although the story is set near Anacortes, the article was found at random in the Camas Post, August 15, 1913. A note before we start, the term…

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