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Article: Squid: a shortage of this increasingly popular mollusk may be sending prices higher, but suppliers say it's still a deal. (Species Focus).
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- Seafood Business
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- January 1, 2003
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While bantering in the bar of Qingdao's Shangri La Hotel at the seafood show in China last October, Mike Byrne was happily tossing out offers of his California squid for about $680 a ton. Byrne, owner of Lund's Fisheries, was eager to start moving squid at the start of the big Southern California fishery.
And China, of course, was the logical place to look for squid buyers. From 1995 to 2001, annual U.S. exports of squid to China, almost all of which was California squid (Loligo opalescens), soared from less than 500 metric tons to more than 40,000 metric tons. Chinas growing appetite for squid had lead to a rapid increase in the annual landings for California ...
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