here in the Monterey bay squid are washing up on all beaches… after all the storms we have had in Dec/Jan pollutants are high. Or maybe these guys are sensitive to something else going on?
just makes me wonder when I paddle out.
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Back in November hundreds of small pebble sized jellyfish washed up all along the Cornwall and Devon coast, I only notice when I stepped on then bare foot whilst on dawn patrol and has blue sqishy gunck between my toes. It made the news (the jelly fish washing on shore not sqwishy gunk) something to do with a change in the path of a warm ocean current brought then in land.
But the dead squid could be cause by any number of things, a rise in pollution is a possibility, but it could just as easily be due an explosion in the squid population, due to favorable conditions, which would be a positive sign. Or a change in sea currents ond or temprature.
I wouldn’t worry if it’s a freak isolated event, but if it continues to could be an indication of a more long term change to the local conditions.
If you go for a dawn patrol take a torch and don’t get dead squid between your toes, yuk.
washington too about 3 or 4 months ago, very many squid on the beach. Big ones … are they humbolt squid?? not your normal loligo loligo. at that time there were possibly huge red tides 100 miles offshore and undersea volcanoes erupting along the juan de fuca ridge
Squid washing up on the beach is not that unusual. Eat em. Mike
The squid beached themselves in Newport this week, too. The end of this last summer there was a huge die off of Grunion, literally thousands littered the beach…
“Fish got to swim, birds got to fly, man got to ask himself why, why, why?”
Kurt Vonnegut (?)
Calamari anyone? 
they are probably telling you its an El Nino year. Unusual water temps and currents seem to cause “bloom” of some species in areas where they can’t thrive. Last El Nino we had tens of thousands of tuna crabs in the water – you literally couldn’t paddle without catching them in your hands – but within a couple weeks they were almost all dead and on the beach.
“not an oceanographer but that’s my guess…”
this summer around july or august we had a huge problem with croakers dying and beaching them self on the mid atlantic coast. from like southern virginia up through jersey. and they said it was a coastal water temper change too. but for like two weeks there where huge croakers all up and down the beach and then it just ended. it was really strange. but i also heard that it was lots of other things to.
correct me if i am wrong but dont those octopus live off shore in deep water, i imagine thats probably a little bit of water temp change and probably a lot of run off