Fishing for Squid

For the last couple of weeks, there have been commercial fishing boats out in the bay in the evenings and at night. As I go to bed, I frequently see the boats' lights out on the bay, and on a couple of occasions when I've been up in the middle of the night, they were still there.

I asked around and was told it was squid season. This last Tuesday, I went running for the first time in a few weeks (work conflicts and being sick were the reasons for my lack of recent running) and when I got to the Municipal Wharf, they'd just finished offloading a boat, so I got to check out the catch - there were a few large tubs of squid on ice waiting to be shipped out.

For a frame of reference, each squid is around about nine inches long.

Below, a couple of the boats are anchored near the wharf in the morning.


Finally, yes, I have been partaking of squid - either the fried calamari on Fisherman's Wharf or the squid burrito at the local seafood taqueria - both are delicious.