The squid catch has increased: in the last five years alone, between 800,000 tons and 1.16 million tons have been caught. China has a declared fleet of 671 ships. Giant squid, squid or Dosidicus ...

The giant squid is a rare and elusive creature, once thought only to exist in stories of sea monsters called krakens. But in 2004, the Museum was offered a nearly complete specimen caught at a depth ...

The quota may be adjusted as new information on environmental conditions and resource availability becomes available.

The last known giant squid (Architeuthis dux) to wash ashore near Cape Town showed up on Long Beach in Kommetjie, on April 30. That cephalopod measured roughly 3.5 meters long.

TOYOOKA, Hyogo Prefecture—Two scuba divers captured rare photos and video of a giant squid slowly plodding along off the coast here and unusually close to the surface. Giant squids are one of ...

Tusoteuthis was a giant squid nearly equal in size to those that ply the oceans today—with their tentacles stretched out, the ancient cephalopods may have measured 25 to 35 feet (8 to 11 meters ...