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d-color: transparent; "><div style=3D"backgroun ---2114655128-325779686-1346337588=:44620 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Dave=0ALong finned squid are long popular as a food fish as are all=0Asp= ecies of squid. The literature is quite extensive on the subject=C2=A0=0Aev= en ways to prepare. It is actually quite tasty.=0AThe species is very cycli= c in its appearance inshore Nova Scotia.=0AThe catch data from the USA supp= ort the local view.=0AFor example 2002 they were more plentiful than this y= ear.=0AThis from wharf information. The cyclic nature perhaps explains=0Ait= s lack of popularity here in NS. However we were at a restaurant=0Athe othe= r evening where it was on the menu - it was very tasty.=0AA Newfoundland wo= man was telling me of the various ways to prepare=0Ait the other evening on= the wharf. She could write a cookbook! Of course squid=0Ais popular in New= foundland where the short finned species is quite regular.=0AFolks on the w= harf included folks from Vietnam and Venezuela - they all=0Aknew how to cle= an them so I presume were familiar with them.=0AHow eating more would affec= t anything is a mystery to me.=0APerhaps the lad was joking - LOL=C2=A0=0AA= nyway last evening the mackerel were in and wharf talk indicates they do=C2= =A0=0Anot come in until the squid depart. Seemed the case last evening.=0AT= ry some - you'll like them=0APaul=0A=0A=0A=0A______________________________= __=0A From: David & Alison Webster <dwebster@glinx.com>=0ATo: naturens@cheb= ucto.ns.ca =0ASent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 9:12:22 PM=0ASubject: Re: [N= atureNS] Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 17:39:15 -0300=0A =0A=0A =0AHi Jim & All,= =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =0A=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2= =A0 =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =0A=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 Aug 29, 201= 2=0A=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 Is it not=C2=A0also possible=C2=A0that a =0Asurfeit = of squid=C2=A0could be=C2=A0partly a consequence of fewer large fish to =0A= 'bite em' ? I suspect that O'Dor made this point and it somehow got lost; = =0Aotherwise why discuss the changes in=C2=A0size distribution of fish =0A?= =0A=C2=A0=0A=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 My now ancient copy of Collins (1959) gives = =0Athe range of Loligo pealei as Nova Scotia to Florida (now as far north a= s =0ANewfoundland) and Illex illecebrosus as Greenland to Gulf of Mexico. = =0A=C2=A0=0A=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 So there has been=C2=A0a potential =0Afor=C2= =A0opportunity to eat squid here; Illex if not Loligo until =0Arecently.=C2= =A0Is Illex inferior as human food to Loligo or do neither =0Akeep/freeze w= ell ?=C2=A0=C2=A0Or is availability too erratic for a market to be =0Aestab= lished ?=0A=C2=A0=0AYt, Dw, Kentville=0A=C2=A0=0A=C2=A0=0A----- Original Me= ssage ----- =0A>From: James W. Wolford =0A>To: NatureNS ; Janet Eaton ; G= lenys Gibson ; Sherman Bleakney ; Sherman Boates ; Mark F Elderkin ; Roy = Bishop ; Jim Wolford ; Fred Scott ; Andrew Hebda ; Donald McAlpine =0A>Sen= t: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 5:50 PM=0A>Subject: [NatureNS] Date: Wed, 29= Aug 2012 17:39:15 -0300=0A>=0A>THANKS to Janet Eaton for sending me this = very timely article on longfin squids, Loligo pealei, by Dalhousie Univ.'s= Ron O'Dor, dated Aug. 28, 2012. =C2=A0Note in the accompanying photo a sq= uid jig lying next to a longfin squid, clearly showing the telltale long f= ins on both sides of the mantle (vs. the much shorter fins of the shortfin= squid, Illex. =C2=A0Jim in Wolfville. =0A>=0A>=0A>Squid invade waters of= f Halifax=E2=80=94Dal scientist blames global warming=0A>www.openfile.ca/h= alifax/story/squid-invade-waters-halifax-dalhousie-scientist -global-warmin= g- Cached=0A>1 day ago ... Warmer waters around Halifax have enticed mill= ions of squid to visit, and Dalhousie researcher Ron O'Dor suggests that i= f we don't want them ... =0A>No virus found in this message.=0A>Checked by= AVG - www.avg.com=0A>Version: 2012.0.2197 / Virus =0A Database: 2437/5232= - Release Date: 08/29/12 ---2114655128-325779686-1346337588=:44620 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html><body><div style=3D"color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:ti= mes new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div id=3D"yiv9152175= 04"><div><div style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255,= 255); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size:= 12pt; "><div id=3D"yiv915217504yui_3_2_0_18_134633638361154"><span id=3D"y= iv915217504yui_3_2_0_18_1346336383611142">Hi Dave</span></div><div id=3D"yi= v915217504yui_3_2_0_18_134633638361154" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-= size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; backg= round-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span id=3D"yiv915217504yui= _3_2_0_18_1346336383611147">Long finned squid are long popular as a food fi= sh as are all</span></div><div id=3D"yiv915217504yui_3_2_0_18_1346336383611= 54" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new = roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style= : normal; "><span id=3D"yiv915217504yui_3_2_0_18_1346336383611156">species of squid.= The literature is quite extensive on the subject </span></div><div id= =3D"yiv915217504yui_3_2_0_18_134633638361154" style=3D"color:rgb(0, 0, 0);f= ont-size:16px;font-family:'times new=0A roman', 'new york', times, serif;ba= ckground-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span id=3D"yiv915217504yui_= 3_2_0_18_1346336383611163">even ways to prepare. It is actually quite tasty= .</span></div><div id=3D"yiv915217504yui_3_2_0_18_134633638361154" style=3D= "color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new= york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">= <span id=3D"yiv915217504yui_3_2_0_18_1346336383611170">The species is very = cyclic in its appearance inshore Nova Scotia.</span></div><div id=3D"yiv915= 217504yui_3_2_0_18_134633638361154" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size= : 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; backgroun= d-color: transparent; font-style: normal; " class=3D"yui