Publisher's Synopsis
Only a few if the many species of squid in the world′s oceans are currently being commercially exploited. The Japanese squid fishery has always been the most important in the world for, over the centuries , it has been built up through increasing knowledge of squid biology, behaviour and environment. Consequently Japanese experts have here been chosen to share their experience with other fishermen, researchers and fishing technologists to enable them to successfully develop the latent squid resources in their own fishing grounds. Most of the Japanese jigging fleet still consists of small relatively low–cost,
