How Do Commercial Squid Fishers Kill The Squid They Catch?

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Jig caught squid in South Africa are packed in trays and snap frozen. Freezing is considered as one of the most humane ways to kill fish and other organisms. Trawl-caught squid are often dead by the time they come to the surface depending on how long the trawl goes for. Interestingly experiments and research involving cephalopods requires special animal ethics approvals in Australia so it seems cephalopod biologists (your's truly included) have done a really good job in persuading others just how important our tentacles friends are! <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/innocent.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':th' />