90,000 squid.

Starving the Squid

And that was a Humboldt squid, a juvenile Humboldt squid, about three feet long.

How many arms does a squid have?

I want to eat squid this evening.

Edith Widder How we found the giant squid

But the black eyed squid takes the prize.

It was Mike that got me invited to the squid summit, a gathering of squid experts at the Discovery Channel that summer during Shark Week.

In the next bit, we're going to see a couple squid.

The varieties landed are tuna, bonito, mackerel, squid, shark, lobster and shrimp.

What was not mentioned in the Discovery documentary was that the bait squid that Dr. Kubodera used, a one meter long diamondback squid had a light attached to it, a squid jig of the type that longline fishermen use, and I think it was this light that brought the giant in.

For example, the giant squid resources of Peru and Mexico were neglected for a long time, as the size of the squid which may be over one metre, was too big for traditional preparations.

So, imagine a great white shark and a giant squid in the same bathroom.

The United States, which was a significant squid exporter, is now a net importer.

This little squid is called the fire shooter because of its ability to do this.

These are squid. Now males, when they fight, if they're really aggressive, they turn white.

Again, another plug for the animals in the ocean, Vibrio fischeri lives in this squid.

19. Squid, including Loligo and Illex, are the mainstay of the territorial fisheries and economy.

Bingo! Now I'm told that's not just a squid phenomenon with males, but I don't know.

For example, the United States market for squid boomed after the product started to be called calamari.

This is something that my people at SQUID Labs are working on at the moment, called electronic rope.

The reason the squid is willing to put up with these shenanigans is because it wants that light.

They can dive to a depth of 1000m. They have jaw, teeth, and They feed on squid or cuttlefish.

What the squid has developed is a shutter that can open and close over this specialized light organ housing the bacteria.

Humankind has been looking for the giant squid since we first started taking pictures underwater. But the elusive deep sea predator could never be caught on film. Oceanographer and inventor Edith Widder shares the key insight and the teamwork that helped to capture the squid on film for the first time.

You hear about giant squid and things like that, but some of these animals get up to be approximately 140, 160 feet long.

The distribution and relative abundance of many pelagic fisheries resources such as tuna, squid, sardines and anchovies were related to surface oceanographic conditions.

For example, this shrimp releases its bioluminescent chemicals into the water just the way a squid or an octopus would release an ink cloud.

A lot of them can release their luciferin or luferase in the water just the way a squid or an octopus will release an ink cloud.

The way that this symbiosis works is that this little squid lives just off the coast of Hawaii, just in sort of shallow knee deep water.

And as the day goes by the bacteria double, they release the molecule, and then light comes on at night, exactly when the squid wants it.

I gave a talk on unobtrusive viewing and optical luring of deep sea squid in which I emphasized the importance of using quiet, unobtrusive platforms for exploration.

The squid is nocturnal, so during the day it buries itself in the sand and sleeps, but then at night it has to come out to hunt.

But then if you think about it, the squid has this terrible problem because it's got this dying, thick culture of bacteria and it can't sustain that.

Now the bacteria are dilute, that little hormone molecule is gone, so they're not making light but of course the squid doesn't care. It's asleep in the sand.

To help achieve this objective, and as in previous years, a joint research cruise will take place in 1998 to evaluate the level of the Illex squid stock. 5.

And there are a lot of different animals that can do this There's jellyfish, there's squid, there's a whole lot of different crustaceans, there's even fish that can do this.

On bright nights when there is lots of starlight or moonlight that light can penetrate the depth of the water the squid lives in, since it's just in those couple feet of water.

The duties on frozen mackerel, frozen squid, frozen hake surimi and frozen cod roe, which are subject to import quotas, will be reduced by 30 per cent at full implementation of the Uruguay Round.

Eighty six seconds after it went into its pinwheel display, we recorded this This is a squid, over six feet long, that is so new to science, it cannot be placed in any known scientific family.

Peru granted fishing rights to the Republic of Korea and Japan, whose fleets exploited the resources and technologists developed a much more acceptable product by cutting the huge squid into smaller squares, bleaching and tenderizing it.

And it opens and closes the shutter so the amount of light coming out of the bottom which is made by the bacterium exactly matches how much light hits the squid's back, so the squid doesn't make a shadow.

Traditionally, Japanese consumers have been reluctant to purchase imported processed fish, although there is a demand for processed products including dried squid, fried and steam boiled eel fillets, dried seaweed, flavoured herring roe, fish eyes, stomachs, and fried skipjack.

Then he meets the yeti crab, the famous vampire squid elusive, hard to find and the Dumbo octopus, which looks so much like a cartoon in real life that really didn't have to change a thing when I drew it.

Beaches, mostly in Mexico but to some extent also in the United States, were hit, and birds succumbed in large numbers, despite the dispersion efforts. Because of the dispersion, shrimp, squid, and some fish populations suffered, with fisheries hit even harder.