NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - Giant squid have invaded the California waters off Newport Beach and are being caught by sport fishermen by the hundreds. The squid showed up last week and anglers started booking twilight fishing trips over the weekend to catch them. So typical that this unusual event would start an orgy of killing.The animals weigh between 20 and sixty pounds. They can grow up to one hundred pounds and six feet long. They follow food sources to wherever they are plentiful, so something in that California water is enticing to squid.The Humboldt squid is also called the jumbo squid or jumbo flying squid and squirts ink to protect itself.
The squid have also recently been spotted off San Diego, Oregon and Washington, all on the U.S. West Coast. Robert Woodbury with Newport Landing Sportfishing told The Orange County Register that anglers in the Southern California county have caught about 400 of the big squid since Friday night.
PLEASE , gentlemen, can't you just let something live? Leave them alone to do what they came to do; eat and breed. Do we have to endanger another species?? We are not starving for squid soup or sandwiches and there is no other excuse for the mass killing of aquatic animals who are just trying to survive the best way they know how.
