"Alarming" Squid Catch Baffles Experts...

Mary Pemberton   |   July 22, 2006 07:27 PM


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They're pink, slippery and decidedly not cute, especially if you are a pollock fisherman in the Bering Sea pulling up a slew of unusable squid this summer.

The problem took on alarming proportions in early July when fishermen netted more than 500 tons of squid bycatch in a week, Josh Keaton, a resource management specialist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, said Friday. The amount was about four times what might be expected.

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