Comments on: QUEST Season 2 Web Premiere: The Fierce Humboldt Squid

By: bill jesernig

bill jesernig — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:47:03 +0000

The eco-system is trying to tell us something….I hope we are listening.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:34:39 +0000

Calamari as appetizers are around $5. Why not harvest these suckers and let the free market handle the problem, in a medium red sauce, of course.

By: Markos

Markos — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:21:11 +0000

Great production! Let's kill all those GIANT DEMONS before they grow legs, come out of the ocean and take over the Earth!
You started there very nicely talking about mysterious creatures that come from the unknown… for a sci-fi movie! Not for a blog that claims to explore science, nature and the environment.
Then you have this completely mindless troll captain that states they can take "a bite out of you" and the professor who's been working for 30 years with them and states that "we don't understand their behavior" yet HE believes that they only live to hunt and feed ?!?
50 years ago it would be forgiven to make such a video, but in this day and age that we know that we DON'T KNOW how nature works and how beyond us it is, it's a shame to condemn a creature to extinction because "we shouldn't feel guilty for killing it".
Did you look at those hooks? Do you know how much pain and stress they go through while hunted by the local traders? Of course they'd be aggravated, angry and ferocious in that hostile environment.
I recently saw a video shot away from that massacre and they seemed just fine around humans and very calm. Check again before demonising creatures from the Earth. FFS we are the invaders not them. Shame!
But I guess now that the Great White shark is close to being endangered we can look for another creature to hunt…
…Disgusting…

By: David Ainley

David Ainley — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:22:28 +0000

Great story, and thank you for doing it. I thought you could have done more with the empty ocean niche angle for why these creatures are doing so well off here. You know, that documentary film, "Empty Ocean, Empty Nets" that got shoved aside by the BBC's "Blue Planet" a few years ago? The growth rate, ultimate size and voraciouness, of chinook salmon comes close to rivaling these squid, but of course we don't have any more of those, and no more rockfish, nor lingcod, nor etc etc etc. I definitely didn't appreciate the inference at the end of your piece about fishermen doing their part of rid the ocean of these fish, lest THESE SQUID rid the ocean of the other fish. Please, please, now and again think beyond climate change as the root of all evil, with now evil embodied, too, in Humboldt squid.

By: Juaneisha

Juaneisha — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:06:44 +0000

I think that this whole thing is both interesting and scary because no one knows where they came from or why they have come back.They are eating everything and are probably going to eat all the fish. Fish will probably be extinct because of them in the next few years. And if they keep envading waters, reproducing, and getting bigger, thay will be the supreme rulers of the oceans, and probably will move to expand their territory, which means that everyone is probably in danger. It also will no longer be safe to go and swim in the ocean anymore, and this scares me.

By: Cephalopodcast.com - The Ocean Podcast

Cephalopodcast.com - The Ocean Podcast — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:07:16 +0000

[...] Something mysterious is stirring in the waters of Half-Moon Bay. It's a "web-exclusive premiere" and additional photos of the new KQED [...]

By: Craig R.

Craig R. — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:25:56 +0000

Hi – thanks for the report, I will review those settings ASAP.

By: Yann

Yann — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:21:48 +0000

Yay! The new season is here!

Too bad, unlike the old episodes it doesn't play on my iPod…
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