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Friday Squid Blogging: Rotting Squid on a Beached California Boat

Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/friday-squid-blogging-rotting-squid-on-a-beached-california-boat.html

Smells awful:

But an estimated 30 to 50 tons of dead squid remain inside the boat’s catch tank, where they have been decomposing for days. “That is nasty. I wouldn’t want to do that,” said commercial fisherman Dick Ogg of the Bodega Bay Fishermen’s Marketing Association.

Ogg said anyone familiar with the fishing industry understands what happens when a large catch sits for an extended period.

“If you think about what happens after four or five days, it’s a gooey mess,” he said.

The odor has become a defining feature of the operation, and the beach remains closed to the public while crews work on a removal plan.

According to salvage expert Ernie English of Parker Diving Service, the squid has deteriorated into a thick mass that will be difficult to remove.

“It’s like concrete,” English said when asked about its consistency.

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Friday Squid Blogging: Truckload of Squid Spills in Rhode Island

Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/friday-squid-blogging-truckload-of-squid-spills-in-rhode-island.html

Ugh:

A tractor-trailer rollover sent a truckload of squid spilling into a Rhode Island roadway, leaving a stench as they sat in the road for hours in the summer heat. Local authorities have dubbed it the “Squidpocalypse of ’26.”

That would be twenty tons of squid.

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Friday Squid Blogging: Neon Flying Squid

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The neon flying squid can fly in formation.

The shoal of about 100 squid rose unexpectedly from a patch of the Pacific Ocean around 370 miles from Tokyo and glided near the boat for about 30 metres. The astonished researchers were the first to capture photographs of such a thing, which looked like the early stages of an alien invasion.

They were probably neon flying squid (Ommastrephes bartramii), the subsequent study states, a species that is part of a 20-strong flying squid family that was known to leap from the water but, until then, was only rumoured to also be able to glide above it.

The neon flying squid was able to gain such elevation by using the hyponome, a funnel-like muscular organ also present in other cephalopods, such as octopuses. The organ is able to force water out in a jet, propelling the body along both in and out of the sea. Photographs of the gliding squid show them with their arms (they have 10 limbs in all) splayed outwards.

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Friday Squid Blogging: Searching for the Colossal Squid

Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/friday-squid-blogging-searching-for-the-colossal-squid-2.html

Fascinating video about searching for life undersea. The video basically makes the point that our bright white searchlights are scaring everything away, and that red light is more neutral. That, plus bait to attract sea creatures, is teaching us a lot about what’s going on down there. Lots of footage of giant squid, and speculation about the colossal squid. Worth watching.

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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Helps Discover New Marine Species

Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/friday-squid-blogging-squid-helps-discover-new-marine-species.html

The Squid is a new scientific machine:

One of the technological breakthroughs was the onboard use of a spinning wheel confocal microscope, nicknamed the Squid, which uses lasers to scan microscopic details of how organisms are put together. “That opens up a whole new world of exploring. We could see cells interacting with each other, exchanging material and building skeletons. And we could do that live on the ship, when usually it takes a couple of weeks of staining and mounting to see anything,” Osborn said.

The expedition discovered thirty-one new marine species in two weeks. The article doesn’t say if any of them were new species of squid.

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Friday Squid Blogging: “Squidbleed” Vulnerability

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In a rare combined cybersecurity/squid post, a twenty-nine-year-old squid proxy bug can leak HTTP requests.

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Friday Squid Blogging: Victims of Unregulated Squid Fishing

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Dolphins, sharks, turtles, and human workers are all victims of unregulated squid fishing fleets.

Another news article.

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Friday Squid Blogging: Regulating Squid Fishing in the South Pacific

Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/05/friday-squid-blogging-regulating-squid-fishing-in-the-south-pacific.html

The South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization (SPRFMO) needs to regulate squid fishing in the South Pacific.

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Friday Squid Blogging: How Squid Survived Extinction Events

Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/friday-squid-blogging-how-squid-survived-extinction-events.html

Science news:

Scientists have finally cracked a long-standing mystery about squid and cuttlefish evolution by analyzing newly sequenced genomes alongside global datasets. The research reveals that these bizarre, intelligent creatures likely originated deep in the ocean over 100 million years ago, surviving mass extinction events by retreating into oxygen-rich deep-sea refuges. For millions of years, their evolution barely changed—until a dramatic post-extinction boom sparked rapid diversification as they moved into new shallow-water habitats.

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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Overfishing in the South Pacific

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Regulation is hard:

The South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization (SPRFMO) oversees fishing across roughly 59 million square kilometers (22 million square miles) of the South Pacific high seas, trying to impose order on a region double the size of Africa, where distant-water fleets pursue species ranging from jack mackerel to jumbo flying squid. The latter dominated this year’s talks.

Fishing for jumbo flying squid (Dosidicus gigas) has expanded rapidly over the past two decades. The number of squid-jigging vessels operating in SPRFMO waters rose from 14 in 2000 to more than 500 last year, almost all of them flying the Chinese flag. Meanwhile, reported catches have fallen markedly, from more than 1 million metric tons in 2014 to about 600,000 metric tons in 2024. Scientists worry that fishing pressure is outpacing knowledge of the stock.

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