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Humboldt Squid
Dosidicus gigas
Dosidicus gigas grows to about 1.5 m and 50 kg in the eastern Pacific's oxygen-poor Humboldt Current, and it does that in barely a year to eighteen months - a growth rate among the fastest of any animal, sustained by a metabolism that burns hard and a life cycle that ends in dea…
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- The Humboldt squid is sometimes called the 'red devil' due to its aggressive behavior and the deep red color it displays when excited or threatened.
- Humboldt squid make daily vertical migrations of several hundred metres, spending days in water so low in oxygen that most fish cannot survive there, effectively using it as a refuge. They are now one of the largest invertebrate fisheries on Earth, with Peru, Chile and China landing hundreds of thousands of tonnes a year. Because they live barely a year, populations can boom and crash on a timescale of months, which makes the fishery notoriously unpredictable.
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