Giant Squid Spotted in Orange County - California
People are surprised and excited to see Giant squid weighing up to 60 pounds (27 kilograms) swimming into waters off Newport Beach. Fishermen are taking full advantage of catching Giant Squid.
After getting noticed last week, Fishermen started using twilight fish catching to catch these Giant creatures.
The LA times reported that people are getting excited for two reasons. First groupof people who want to eat the Costly fish and others are those who want to see them in the sea and so the tourusts are also getting atracted to the area.
Robert Woodbury, from Newport Landing Sports fishing, said "Most of the fish we catch are better to eat, but they don't give you much of a fight." He said the squid were "trying to crawl around and blow ink all over everybody."
According to him , around 400 squids have been caught since Friday night. The average weight of the animals is found to be 20 to 40 lbs but some with 60 lbs have also been reported.
These type of Jumbo squids are called Humboldt squids. They squirt ink to protect themselves. Sometimes they can grow upto 6 ft and weight 100 lbs.
Recently Squid were found in the sea off Washington, San Diego and Oregon on the West Coast.
Orange County sports fishing businesses are really excited and in celebration mood due to the arrival of squid this season which is usually slow.
