..... formed the Cook Squid and Octopus Harvesting Company which was, ostensibly, just active to give them a quick squeeze once caught, harvest the ink, and chuck them back with no harm done, except for the animals wondering "WTF was that?".
The ink was ultimately processed and marketed by the Cook Octopus and Squid Company (the initial COSCO before it became a worldwide phenomenon under Cappy's leadership).
However it was soon realised that most of the cash was in the bits that were being chucked, so at midnight each evening a black painted stealth hydrofoil high speed vessel would arrive and transfer the fleshy bits so that only ink tanks were visible when the Inspectors arrived.
This is when bull and Cappy first met as bull was the sneaky skipper (SS), and this suited him so well, as he hid his black boat in the mangroves around Bone & unloaded it into a fleet of Freightliners during the morning, got paralytic at the Bone Rissole in the arvo, and then came ......