Squid Fishing (Squid Jigging)

• • Although the pressures of overfishing are known to be increasingly detrimental for many different species, one kind of seafood often overlooked as a great alternative, is squid.

    • Various cephalopod species are actually in fact thriving in current ocean conditions, as they exploit gaps left by changing climate conditions and the overfishing of other animals. (The Conversation)

    • A prevailing method of squid fishing is known as “Jigging”, where commercial fishing vessels utilize large spotlights to attract squid from the depths of the open ocean. (Squid World)

    • Squid fishing primarily takes place at night, since market squid and other commonly fished squid species experience “diel vertical migration”, where populations will migrate up from depth to surface waters every night to feed. (NWF)