New Humbolt Squid Info Video

[DockRat]

There Millions of this Squid invading local waters.
Get this 'Delicious Calamari' while the fishing is on fire.
Help save local fish and eat good too, better and fresher than any fish market
or some expensive restaurant Calamari.

The limit is 35.
35 x 5 lbs each = 175 lbs of Calamari.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYX_xCsqfR8

Man Dives into School of Frenzying Deadly Humboldt Squid with a Knife - Perfect Shot!
This Dude Is Cool !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrTpPUAYE48

Cleaning video, this squid is much bigger than the local 5 lb ers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM8_JgzAKdE
http://i981.photobucket.com/albums/ae298/optical_photos/ninja_squid.jpg DR

[vanillagurilla]

lol squid dont eat krill hahaha wtf!?

[DockRat]

lol squid dont eat krill hahaha wtf!?

Humboldt Squid

Humboldt Squid Facts

Description

Also referred to as the jumbo squid, the Humboldt is one you do want to recognize. They aren’t as long as you would think with a name like that though. They only get to be about 7 feet long and weigh up to 100 pounds. They grow extremely fast though so those new offspring can get very large in a matter of months as long as they have enough food to nourish their bodies.

They have the ability to change their colors from shades of red to shades of purple and then white as well. Some people used to believe this was for hiding but it is now believed it is for communication purposes. Due to the different colors the Humboldt squid is often misidentified.

Distribution

The name for this species of squid is derived from its main location – the Humboldt Current. This is found in the East Pacific Ocean region if you aren’t familiar with it by name alone. The are sometimes found along the coastal region of California as well.

Many researchers believe that the Humboldt squid also reside in Oregon, Alaska, and Washington. There have been some sightings in these areas thanks to newer technology.
They are generally found about 2,300 feet down from surface of the water. This means you have to be actively looking for them or you will miss them.

Behavior

This is one of the most aggressive of all the squid out there but humans don’t need to worry. This aggression is toward their prey and nothing else. This is one of the few types of squid that live in groups. These groups are called shoals and there can be up to 1,200 of them in one.

They can move around in the water at a speed of about 15 miles per hour. The social hierarchy in their shoals really haven’t been identified by researchers. They live an active life though that is generally over within a year.

Since they are do deep in the water during the day there isn’t much we really know about their behaviors. At nigh the go to the surface to feed and that has been recorded in great detail by researchers.

Diet /Feeding

This species of squid generally feeds upon krill and various types of small fish. They tend to look for food close to the surface of the water even though they spend most of their time deeper down. They come up at night to feed because that is when they find their prey to be readily available.

When they have limited supplies of food available, they will eat other members of their own shoal. The smaller members of it are the most likely targets. This type of cannibalism within a species is very rare. Some squid will eat other types but not their own species.

Reproduction

The ability to change colors may be a factor for mating. The males may engage in it to get the attention of females. The exact process isn’t readily known. In fact, the eggs have never been seen by researchers. However, it is believed that they deposit their eggs in hidden locations at the floor of the sea as other types of squid do.

Human interaction

While many experts agree that the Humboldt squid is not a threat to humans, others disagree. There have been some reports around the Sea of Cortez of divers and fishermen being attacked. It is believed this is due to an aggressive search for food though and not the urge to kill.

Humans have interacted with them in captivity in an effort to learn more about them. Since they have such a short life span there is a great deal to learn from one in a short span of time.

http://www.squid-world.com/humboldt-squid.html

[DockRat]

lol squid dont eat krill hahaha wtf!?

Hey VG, Good reply, I just learned something. Others too.
I've been known to post misinformation and have been corrected more times than I would like to admit to.
(See pay raises on General Discussion OMG)

Maybe these rumors of Humbolts eating Calico/Sand Bass is BS. I dunno ?
Are they chasing Krill only, or sardines, anchovies.
Thoughts ?
DR


(0.4–0.8 in) Size of Krill.
http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q155/xpachex/krill.jpg

Krill
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Euphausiacea
A northern krill (Meganyctiphanes norvegica)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Superorder: Eucarida
Order: Euphausiacea
Dana, 1852
Families and genera

Krill is the common name given to the order Euphausiacea of shrimp-like marine crustaceans. Also known as euphausiids, these small invertebrates are found in all oceans of the world. The common name krill comes from the Norwegian word krill, meaning "young fry of fish",[1] which is also often attributed to other species of fish.

Krill are considered an important trophic level connection—near the bottom of the food chain—because they feed on phytoplankton and to a lesser extent zooplankton, converting these into a form suitable for many larger animals for whom krill makes up the largest part of their diet. In the Southern Ocean, one species, the Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba, makes up an estimated biomass of over 500,000,000 tonnes (490,000,000 long tons; 550,000,000 short tons), roughly twice that of humans. Of this, over half is eaten by whales, seals, penguins, squid and fish each year, and is replaced by growth and reproduction. Most krill species display large daily vertical migrations, thus providing food for predators near the surface at night and in deeper waters during the day.

Commercial fishing of krill is done in the Southern Ocean and in the waters around Japan. The total global harvest amounts to 150,000–200,000 tonnes (150,000–200,000 long tons; 170,000–220,000 short tons) annually, most of this from the Scotia Sea. Most of the krill catch is used for aquaculture and aquarium feeds, as bait in sport fishing, or in the pharmaceutical industry. In Japan and Russia, krill is also used for human consumption and is known as okiami (オキアミ?)[1] in Japan

Taxonomy

Krill belong to the large arthropod subphylum, the Crustacea. The most familiar and largest group of crustaceans, the class Malacostraca, includes the superorder Eucarida comprising the three orders, Euphausiacea or krill, Decapoda (shrimp, lobsters, crabs), and the minuscule Amphionides.

The order Euphasiacea comprises two families. The more abundant Euphausiidae contains ten different genera with a total of 85 species. Of these, the genus Euphausia is the largest, with 31 species.[2] The lesser known family, the Bentheuphausiidae, has only one species, Bentheuphausia amblyops, a bathypelagic krill living in deep waters below 1,000 metres (3,300 ft). It is considered the most primitive living species of all krill.[3]

Well-known species of the Euphausiidae of commercial krill fisheries include Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba), Pacific krill (Euphausia pacifica) and Northern krill (Meganyctiphanes norvegica).[4]

Krill occur worldwide in all oceans, although many individual species have endemic or neritic (i.e., coastal) restricted distributions. Bentheuphausia amblyops, a bathypelagic species, has a cosmopolitan distribution within its deep-sea habitat.[16]

Species of the genus Thysanoessa occur in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.[17] The Pacific is home to Euphausia pacifica. Northern krill occur across the Atlantic from the Mediterranean Sea northward.

Species with neritic distributions include the four species of the genus Nyctiphanes.[8] They are highly abundant along the upwelling regions of the California, Humboldt, Benguela, and Canarias current systems.[17][18][19] Another species having only neritic distribution is E. crystallorophias, which occurs only along the Antarctic coastline (and thus also is endemic to that region).[20]

Species with endemic distributions include Nyctiphanes capensis, which occurs only in the Benguela current,[8] E. mucronata in the Humboldt current,[21] and the six Euphausia species native to the Southern Ocean.

In the Antarctic, seven species are known,[22] one species of the genus Thysanoessa (T. macrura) and six of the genus Euphausia. The Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) commonly lives at depths of as much as 100 m (330 ft),[23] whereas ice krill (Euphausia crystallorophias) have been recorded at a depth of 4,000 m (13,100 ft), though they commonly live at depths of at most 300–600 m (1,000–2,000 ft).[24] Both are found at latitudes south of 55° S, with E. crystallorophias dominating south of 74° S[25] and in regions of pack ice. Other species known in the Southern Ocean are E. frigida, E. longirostris, E. triacantha and E. vallentini.[

[vanillagurilla]

there are NOT eating krill, they probly do when there small like under 6" but these big humbolts are eating fish, whatever they can grab they will eat. bass are pretty agressive but once a squid gets ahold of it it just rips into it with there beak. there not showing up here to feed there showing up to spawn i belive, i got 2 of them down surf fishing and both were full of eggs.