Subject: Re: Giant Squid (Darin Waller)

From: Jeff Keiser <[email-masked]>
Date: 23 Jan 1996 02:25:19 GMT

Was the squid hauled aboard alive?  As I understand it, most (if not all) 
extant specimens of this animal have been found either washed ashore, 
inside whale stomachs, or brought up from the depths already dead.  I 
recall reading this in an oceanography text a few years ago.  As I am not 
a fisheries biologist or marine scientist, I could possess some very 
dated information.  What an amazingly mysterious animal!  

Thanks for any additional information!

Jeff