Squid
Catching Spring Squid
May is squid time in New England. When the water temperature reaches 50 to 55 degrees, the 10-armed marine mollusks migrate inshore and gather in protected estuaries, bays, coves and harbors. Once their predators (namely bluefish, fluke, seabass and...
Squid Most Valuable Commercial Fishery in RI
Providence Journal: There was no dissenting voice on the merits of naming calamari Rhode Island’s official appetizer at a State House hearing, but there were lots of remarkable numbers on the importance of squid to the local economy. Some...
Maine Squid Fishermen Finding Local Market
Working Waterfront: Culinary trends can be tricky to predict with the recent trend to sample both exotic and local foods—sometimes on the same plate. The roster of locally available foods is well known, and here in Maine one can...
NH Fishing Report: 7.5.12
The following report is issued by the New Hampshire Department of Fish & Game for the week of July 5, 2012. Stocking report Boat Note: The boat access facility on the Connecticut River in Orford, N.H., has been refurbished by...
NE Fishery Managers to Vote on River Herring Protection
On Thursday, June 14, Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council voted on actions to protect river herring and shad in the mackerel and squid fisheries. The Council voted to recommend 100% at-sea monitoring on all midwater trawl mackerel vessels, and catch...
Cape Cod & Islands Fishing Report: May 3, 2012
CapeCodOnline fishing reporter Rob Conery has shared his weekly fishing report for the Cape and Islands. Among the highlights are: Squid run is on in Nantucket Sound Tautog bite in Buzzards Bay is slowing Reports of striped bass in...
April Squidding on Cape Cod
In a recent column on CapeCodToday.com, writer and fisherwoman Bethany Gibbons talks about fishing for squid on Cape Cod. Gibbons found the squid running early this year in a small estuary running from a local salt pond. Besides detailing...
Squid, Bluefish Reported off Cape Cod, Vineyard
The Goose Hummock Shop in Orleans, Massachusetts, is reporting that squid have arrived in Nantucket Sound. Goose also reports that bluefish are just south of Martha’s Vineyard, where they are rumored to be feasting on a giant school of...
RI Deemed Squid Capital of East Coast
Providence Journal: An ugly, slimy Rhode Island secret has surfaced: Rhode Island is the East Coast capital of squid. Squid is to Rhode Island what lobster is to Maine; cod to Massachusetts. “It was surprising to me, and I...
Squid Fever!
Spring is squid time in New England. When the water temperature reaches 50 to 55 degrees, the 10-armed marine mollusks migrate inshore and gather in protected estuaries, bays, coves and harbors. Once their predators (namely bluefish, fluke, seabass and...
