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Global supply shortages continue to strengthen market pricing for all species of squid. Product scarcity along the Pacific coast of America has left a low legal inventories cleared out and fishermen empty handed.

Preliminary catch totals for the 2015 16 season are thirty seven thousand metric tons only 35% of the seasonal catch limit up one hundred and seven thousand metric tons. Warmer el Nino water conditions are to blame for the stock shortages in California, a big el Nino in the area was in 1997 which ended around May 1998 was significant landing to returning to the area in October.

A recent NOAA report shows lending it returning so if the 2016 landing shore similar trend to the last el Nino we could see landings returned by September or October. Lackluster supply on the east coast of the USA has effected the helix good market as well. NOAA has reported just under eighty thousand pounds caught since the beginning of the year which is far greater than this time last year at only two thousand pounds. preseason estimates for 2010 16:16 show similar trends as last year when only 11% of the 2015 quarter was caught but it\'s too early to see if the fishery can make a recovery.

Zero catch of West Coast squid this season and limited East Coast production has pushed up pricing for Chinese counterpart. The main export markets are the west coast and Europe however few Chinese plans offer to Nisa squid as supply is often short on this product is well.

Last season prices for frozen three to five inch 2010 calls hovered around the dollar eighty mark. This year we have seen prices steadily climbed to $2.20 a pound where they sit now with no signs of dissipating. We expect pricing to continue climb until the mess illegal production resumes hopefully in the fall.