Australian fishermen net 500-pound squid (20 feet long; OF COURSE there are pictures :-))

AP / Various others ^ | May 26, 2008

[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.

 

 

[Stoat]

 

Fisherman land giant squid Giant squid The Sun HomePageNews

 

 

Sea monster ... squid

 

Oz fishermen are squids in

 

By STAFF REPORTER

Published: Today

 

 

 

 

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 trawler’s nets last night off Australia’s 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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[RichInOC]

Send lemon and butter.

[RightWhale]

Is this a fresh dead squid or are they dragging out the old 20 foot squid again for the slow news weekend?

[Stoat]

[OB1kNOb]

Calamari for everyone!

[Stoat]

Is this a fresh dead squid

I would never distrust our Aussie Friends when it comes to something as essential as Squid News.......I'm confident it's a fresh squid  :-)

[Bringbackthedraft]

Momma Mia, Datsa alotsa calamare. We gona need lotsa tomatoes, basile and one bigga pot.

[Grizzled Bear]

Is this a fresh dead squid...?

He's not dead. He's pining for the fjords.

[Dog Gone]

What in the hell were they trawling for at 1,640 feet deep?

Besides dead squid, of course.

[Stoat]

We gona need lotsa tomatoes

Valencia, 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.

It’s 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. It’s held on the last Wednesday of August every year, at ten o’clock in the morning – this year being 27th August 2008.

 

 

 

[Stoat]

What in the hell were they trawling for at 1,640 feet deep?

Besides dead squid, of course.

Perhaps it was another DOD recovery project....

Titanic search was cover for secret Cold War subs mission - Times Online

Project Jennifer - Hughes Glomar Explorer

What in the hell were they trawling for at 1,640 feet deep?

Besides dead squid, of course.

[Be_Politically_Erect]

Calamari for a year.

[CaspersGh0sts]

“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?

[Dog Gone]

I wonder who the first human was who looked at a squid of any size and said, “that looks darn tasty.”

[Stoat]

I wonder who the first human was who looked at a squid of any size and said, “that looks darn tasty.”

[Uriah_lost]

I’d bet it was a Scotsman, all our food started as a dare some just didn’t carry through.

[Squidpup]

Squid-Ping

[Octar]

- Research indicates that squid cannot smell, they have no noses.

I'll bet this one smells.

[dayglored]

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.)

[pabianice]

BREAKING... squid found to be registered to vote in Chicago...more...