The squid fleet in the U.S. state of California found favorable ocean conditions as the 2021 season kicked off this spring. Last year’s ocean water temperatures left an air of optimism that the effects from El Niño conditions in 2018 and 2019 had swung through more normal temperatures, and that this year’s harvest would increase.
Thus far, those hopes have largely come true. Landings for 2020 came in at 55.27 million short tons, according to converted data from PacFIN. As of July in 2021, the fleet had landed 48.77 million short tons…