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Another Amazing Squid Season Is Here! 
 
(When the squid are gone, the season is over...)

This season, 8 fishing boats who catch for Southern Cal Seafood, are bringing in approximately 600 tons of squid a day into Pillar Point Harbor says the Harbor Master.
Each boat can bring in 100 tons of the delicacy. 

Squid fishing takes place during the night.  The fishermen shine bright lights into the water and the squid come to the.......



















An Amazing Squid Season Is Here! 
 
(When the squid are gone, the season is over...)

This season fishing boats right off of Pillar Point are bringing in 110 tons of squid a day!
Squid fishing takes place during the night.  The fishermen shine bright lights into the water and the squid come to the top where they are nabbed in big nets.    We have counted up to 17 boats just off Pillar Point the last several nights. ...
The bay in front of Pillar Point RV Park came alive today!   A huge school of squid were passing through and that meant not only fishing boats, but hundreds of seagulls, terns and pelicans swarming in the air, diving for their dinner.

You can tell a squid fishing boat here at Pillar Point because they fish at night and shine their brightest lights onto the ocean around them.  That makes the squid come to the surface where the fish...