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Australian fishermen net 500-pound squid (20 feet long; OF COURSE there are pictures :-))
AP / Various others ^
| May 26, 2008
Posted on 05/26/2008 10:26:35 AM PDT by Stoat
Australian fishermen net 500-pound squid
4 hours ago
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Australian fishermen have hauled up a 20-foot-long giant squid off the country's southeastern coast.
Skipper Rangi Pene said Monday that the 500-pound squid was already dead when it was caught in a trawler's nets Sunday night in waters more than 1,640 feet deep.
Paul McCoy, a fisheries research biologist, said it took 10 men to lift the squid onto a stretcher and place it in a storage freezer in the city of Portland. A museum will collect it this week.
McCoy said an analysis by the museum would determine the type of squid, its age and possibly how it died.
TOPICS: Food; Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: australia; calamari; cryptozoology; fishermen; fishing; giantsquid; kraken; squid; tentacles; unagi
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Fisherman land giant squid Giant squid The Sun HomePageNews
Sea monster ... squid
Oz fishermen are squids in
AUSTRALIAN fishermen were squids in when they hauled this 20-foot long sea monster from the ocean.
Skipper Rangi Pene said the 500-pound giant squid was already dead when it was caught in the trawlers nets last night off Australias southeastern coast waters, which plummet to depths of 1,640 feet.
Squids in ... catch of the day
Paul McCoy, a fisheries research biologist, said it took 10 men to lift the squid onto a stretcher and place it in a storage freezer in the city of Portland.
Museum Victoria will collect the creature this week.
Mr McCoy said analysis by the museum would determine the type of squid, its age and possibly how it died.
Pictures 20ft giant squid caught by fisherman - Mirror.co.uk
FUN SQUID FACTS
- The giant squid remains largely a mystery to scientists despite being the biggest invertebrate on Earth. Their inhospitable deep-sea habitat has made them uniquely difficult to study, and almost everything scientists know about them is from carcasses that have washed up on beaches or been hauled in by fishermen.
- The largest of these elusive giants ever found measured 59 feet (18 metres) in length and weighed nearly a ton (900 kg).
- Squid are among the fastest invertebrates on Earth speeding through the water at up to 24mph.
- Research indicates that squid cannot smell, they have no noses.
- Squid eyes are similar to fish eyes. They have no eyelids but control the amount of light coming into the eye by opening and closing their slitted pupil.
- Ever been told you've got Squid eye? It means your eye is all messed up and people can't tell which way or what you are looking at.
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posted on
05/26/2008 10:26:35 AM PDT
by
Stoat
To: Stoat
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posted on
05/26/2008 10:28:26 AM PDT
by
RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
To: Stoat
Is this a fresh dead squid or are they dragging out the old 20 foot squid again for the slow news weekend?
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posted on
05/26/2008 10:30:26 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(You are reading this now)
To: SunkenCiv; shaggy eel; Cyclopean Squid; Squidpup
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posted on
05/26/2008 10:30:48 AM PDT
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: Stoat
Calamari for everyone!
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posted on
05/26/2008 10:32:41 AM PDT
by
OB1kNOb
("We like Mr. Obama and we hope he will win the election." - Ahmed Yousef, Hamas PM advisor)
To: RightWhale
Is this a fresh dead squidI would never distrust our Aussie Friends when it comes to something as essential as Squid News.......I'm confident it's a fresh squid :-)
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posted on
05/26/2008 10:33:23 AM PDT
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: Stoat
Momma Mia, Datsa alotsa calamare. We gona need lotsa tomatoes, basile and one bigga pot.
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posted on
05/26/2008 10:41:52 AM PDT
by
Bringbackthedraft
(Where have all our Great Leaders gone? Certainly there must be one out there?)
To: RightWhale
Is this a fresh dead squid...? He's not dead. He's pining for the fjords.
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posted on
05/26/2008 10:44:53 AM PDT
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: Stoat
What in the hell were they trawling for at 1,640 feet deep?
Besides dead squid, of course.
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posted on
05/26/2008 10:50:23 AM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: Bringbackthedraft
We gona need lotsa tomatoesValencia, Spain usually has a few extras....
La Tomatina Spanish Tomato Festival at Buñol - Events - Valencia
La Tomatina Spanish Tomato Festival at Buñol
Practical Joke Turned All-Out Spanish Tomato War!
150,000 tomatoes; 20,000 unrelenting participants; and 2 hours of exhilarating entertainment! That is the meaning of this once-a-year popular Spainsh tomato festival, held at the Plaza del Pueblo, in the tiny Spanish town of Buñol, just 15 minutes by train from Valencia in Spain. Its name La Tomatina. How it began no-one really knows, yet its origins lie somewhere between a practical joke of throwing tomatoes to silence a singing townsman, to a riot that broke out over a disagreement between some youths and members of a parade in 1945. The battle was broken up by police, but the following year on the same date, the men came prepared with their own tomatoes. The date then became known as the day of the Tomatina and has been celebrated ever since. Its held on the last Wednesday of August every year, at ten oclock in the morning this year being 27th August 2008.
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posted on
05/26/2008 10:52:28 AM PDT
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: Dog Gone
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posted on
05/26/2008 10:58:58 AM PDT
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: RichInOC
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posted on
05/26/2008 11:02:17 AM PDT
by
Be_Politically_Erect
(If I didn't think he'd get emotionally attached to it, I'd tell Barry to kiss my A**!)
To: RichInOC
“Send lemon and butter.”
Hope you like the distinct aftertaste of ammonia. The tissue of a giant squid is soaked with it.
Not quite as appealing, is it?
To: CaspersGh0sts
I wonder who the first human was who looked at a squid of any size and said, “that looks darn tasty.”
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posted on
05/26/2008 11:14:49 AM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: Dog Gone
I wonder who the first human was who looked at a squid of any size and said, that looks darn tasty.
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posted on
05/26/2008 11:21:18 AM PDT
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: Dog Gone
I’d bet it was a Scotsman, all our food started as a dare some just didn’t carry through.
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posted on
05/26/2008 11:26:45 AM PDT
by
Uriah_lost
(Do you have your "bug out" plan ready?)
To: Stoat
Squid-Ping
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posted on
05/26/2008 11:30:10 AM PDT
by
Squidpup
("Fight the Good Fight")
To: Stoat
- Research indicates that squid cannot smell, they have no noses.I'll bet this one smells.
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posted on
05/26/2008 11:52:08 AM PDT
by
Octar
To: Stoat
DANG! That's-a one spicy meatball under all-a them tomatoes!
(And that's all I'll say about her tomatoes lest I get suspended.)
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posted on
05/26/2008 12:05:57 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: Stoat
BREAKING... squid found to be registered to vote in Chicago...more...
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