Meaning of flying squid | Babel Free

Definitions

Any of various species of the family Ommastrephidae with the ability to glide in air above the water.

Examples

“The Flying Fish or Cuttle Fish (Loligo Sp.)—Many different kinds of Loligo are called by sailors Flying Squid, from a habit they have of leaping from the water, and proceeding through the air to some distance in a horizontal direction, like flying fish.”

“Among the five different gillnet mesh sizes used by the Korean gillnet fishery, the 86 and 105 mm mesh were most commonly used for targeting on neon flying squid, Ommastrephes bartrami (Lesueur), in the North Pacific.”

“For flying squid, designated observers will measure the mantle lengths of 30 flying squid randomly sampled from a single observed section each day.”

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