Article: SQUID HARVESTS BREAK RECORDS\Industry pushing for regulations to prevent over-fishing.(NEWS)(Statistical Data Included)

Byline: Michael Coit Daily News Staff Writer

Massive schools of squid have streamed into waters off the Channel Islands in recent winters, luring boats from as far away as Alaska that are hauling record tonnages and spawning concerns about over-fishing.

Tim Sullivan brought the Pacific Rose, rigged with the latest in sonar and electronic tracking devices, from Half Moon Bay for the season, which runs October through March. A commercial fisherman for 20 of his 37 years, Sullivan, with his crew, is filling the boat's hold with 30 to 50 tons of the transparent, bug-eyed mollusks netted on most nights.

"It's been steadily increasing. We're pretty ...

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