NAPLES — What has eight legs and loves stone crabs? The answer isn’t necessarily a table of four, dining at a waterfront restaurant.
The 2010-11 season for the local seafood delicacy is just a tasty memory, with the last claws delivered on May 15. But many crabbers and crab vendors said the big news of this year’s stone crab season was the octopus.
“For a little stretch in February, it was pretty tight,” said Rich Cahoon, director of operations for Seafood Dynamics, better known to the fish-buying public as Captain Jerry’s. “You’d pull up the traps, and there would be nothing but shells – and octopus.”
The octopi are normally a problem for crabbers farther north in the Gulf of Mexico, he said, but migrated to Southwest Florida this year.
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