What is a Native Squid?
Native Squid is active in the day/light, in the Pelagic area of the ocean. During the night/dark, Native Squid fall to the depths of the ocean and are less active. Squid have an interesting lifestyle where at the end of their lifecycle (approximately 1 year) they spawn and die, this is the reason there is a huge lack of squid between the months of March and August as this is the period when the new generation of Native Squid are growing.
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Wild, Fresh
North East Atlantic
Related fish
Cephalopod with tender meat when cooked gently; ink prized in Mediterranean cuisine for risottos, pastas, and sauces.
Octopus are pot caught or demersal trawled. There are various Octopus fisheries across the North East Atlantic, with the most important being off the coast of Spain and Portugal, where the larger Octopus are caught. Octopus is caught all year round, the UK has a few fisheries and what is caught is smaller, normally less than 1kg in size.