California squid hits down cyole with El Nino

摘要

California's market squid fishing is well-known for its boom-and-bust cycles and this year, the season is on a downslide. As of late October, only about 35,000 of the season's 118,000-short-ton quota had been landed.About 90,000 tons had been landed at the same time last year, in a season that met its quota by mid-November. California's one-year squid season ends in March.This year's spotty, low-volume fishing comes in the wake of a series of boom years. After predictions of a strong El Nino event, the downturn hasn't caught fishermen off-guard."It's not unexpected, but that doesn't make it any easier," said Corbin Hanson, skipper of the F/V Eileen, which works out of the Port of Los Angeles.