Squid, although it is customary to call them fish, is actually not a fish, but a mollusk living in the ocean, with a slender, long cone-shaped body and a sucker at the front end.

Squid has two gills as respiratory organs; The body is divided into head, short neck and trunk. The body is slender and has a long cone shape, and two of them are longer. Taxonomically, squid belongs to mollusca-Cephalopoda-Octopus-marlin. There are a pair of developed eyes and wrist feet around the mouth on both sides of the head.

Squid grows in the middle and upper layer of shallow sea, mainly distributed in the Bohai Sea, southern Fujian, Guangdong and other offshore areas in China. Squid will feed on krill, sardines and small male fish in the sea, and occasionally prey on shellfish and mussels.

Living habits

It often moves in the middle and upper layers of shallow water, and its vertical movement range can reach more than 100 meters. It feeds on krill, sardines, whitebait and Xiao Xiong fish, and is also the prey of fierce fish. Eggs are matured in batches and produced in batches. The egg is wrapped in a gelatinous sheath. Each egg sheath produces several to hundreds of eggs according to different species, and the amount of eggs laid by different species varies greatly, ranging from several million to tens of thousands.

The annual output of squid (commonly known as "squid") in China is 40,000-50,000 tons. Its main fishing grounds are Bohai Sea in China, southern Fujian, Taiwan Province Province, Guangdong and Guangxi, as well as the offshore areas of the Philippines, Viet Nam and Thailand.