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Excerpt from The Anatomy of the Common Squid: Loligo Pealii, Lesueur
The bathymetric distribution of the species is also undetermined, but the fact that its eggs, which are attached to objects on the bottom, have been dredged from water 25 to 50 fathoms deep indicates that squid go at least to that depth.
Our knowledge Of the habits of the squid is very incomplete. Little is known of the whereabouts Of the squid during the Winter and early Spring but about the last Of April or the first of May large schools, Often containing thousands Of squid, appear along the shore and are taken by hundreds of barrels in the weirs. This first run is believed by the New Jersey fisherman to precede the run of the Sea Bass. After it, the large schools are not common, but throughout the Spring and Summer large schools occasionally enter the traps. A few squid are usually caught each week until the weirs are taken in to save them from the November storms. The egg clusters and the young squid appear two or three weeks after the run of the large schools and are common until cold weather, when both old and young squid become scarce.
Our knowledge is not sufficient to justify precise and positive assertions about the life history Of the squid, but the observations stated above tend to justify the belief that the following sketch is fairly correct.
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