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The Japanese flying squid, Japanese common squid or Pacific flying squid, [3] scientific name Todarodes pacificus, is a squid of the family Ommastrephidae.This animal lives in the northern Pacific Ocean, in the area surrounding Japan, along the entire coast of China up to Russia, then spreading across the Bering Strait east towards the southern coast of Alaska and Canada.
Loliolus Japonica, the Japanese squid, is a species of squid from the family Loliginidae. As the name suggests, it lives around Japan, but has also been found around Vietnam and China. [2] They are pelagic, living 1–30 m (3 ft 3 in – 98 ft 5 in) down in the ocean. [2] At a restaurant in Beijing, China
A frame from the first colour film of a live giant squid in its natural habitat, [nb 1] recorded from a manned submersible off Japan's Ogasawara Islands in July 2012. The animal (#549 on this list) is seen feeding on a 1-metre-long Thysanoteuthis rhombus (diamondback squid), which was used as bait in conjunction with a flashing squid jig. [2]
The giant squid is widespread, occurring in all of the world's oceans. It is usually found near continental and island slopes from the North Atlantic Ocean, especially Newfoundland, Norway, the northern British Isles, Spain and the oceanic islands of the Azores and Madeira, to the South Atlantic around southern Africa, the North Pacific around Japan, and the southwestern Pacific around New ...
The firefly squid is a predator and actively hunts its food, which includes copepods, small fish, and other squids. [3] The lifespan of a firefly squid is about one year. At the end of their lives, females return close to shore to release their eggs and then die shortly thereafter. This mass migration of firefly squid to the shore is a ...
This squid is caught for food off the coast of Japan. [9] It lays its eggs on the underside of submerged objects. In order to increase catches, artificial substrates have been installed along the coast of Japan to provide more egg-laying sites. [3] This species is important in biological research. Its mitochondrial genome has been sequenced. [10]
The bigfin reef squid is the first squid species to have been cultured for more than one generation. It is remarkable for its ability to readily adapt to being confined in tanks, [31] [53] and is one of the few squid species of which the entire life span has been observed under laboratory conditions. [54]
Since 1993 squid has been the #1 fishery in California with landings of 118,000 tons [vague] and $41 million in 2000. The population fluctuates greatly with the El Niño . During these warm water and nutrient poor years landings can disappear entirely in certain areas.