Squid, although it is customary to call them fish, is actually not a fish, but a mollusk living in the ocean. Taxonomically, squid belongs to mollusca-Cephalopoda-Diptera-Decapoda. Squid has two gills as respiratory organs; The body is divided into head, short neck and trunk. There are a pair of developed eyes and wrist feet around the mouth on both sides of the head.
At present, there are two kinds of squid on the market: one is a squid with a large trunk and its name is "squid"; One is squid with a slender trunk. Its name is "soft fish", and the small soft fish is commonly known as "small tube".
Sepiidae (Sepiidae; Squid): 1 Cephalopoda family, commonly known as squid. Mainly distributed in tropical and temperate shallow seas, with about 50 species. It often moves in the middle and upper layers of shallow water, and its vertical movement range can reach more than 100 meters. It feeds on krill, sardines, whitebait and Xiao Xiong fish, and is also the prey of fierce fish. Eggs are matured in batches and produced in batches. Eggs are wrapped in gelatinous egg sheaths, and each egg sheath contains several to hundreds of eggs according to different species. The amount of eggs laid by different species also varies greatly, ranging from several hundred to tens of thousands.
China squid (commonly known as "squid") is tender in meat, and its dried product is called "dried squid" with excellent meat quality. It enjoys a high reputation in the seafood market at home and abroad, with an annual output of 40,000-50,000 tons. Its main fishing grounds are in China, southern Fujian, Taiwan Province Province, Guangdong and Guangxi, as well as the offshore areas of the Philippines, Viet Nam and Thailand.