Sea Fresh USA is proud to offer our line of premium gourmet cleaned calamari. We start with day boat-fresh loligo squid, chilled at sea in icy brinewater, from our fleet of more than thirty fishing vessels. The squid is unloaded at our HACCP approved wharf in Point Judith, Rhode Island and transferred immediately to our nearby production facilities where it is quickly run through our processing line.
There, our highly-trained personnel clean and pack the squid by hand, removing all viscera and wings in the process. The result is cleaned calamari of the highest possible quality, with no waste, no fillers, and perfect taste and texture. We offer a calamari pack of true weight, with no unusable wing or water weight that goes to waste upon thawing. Sea Fresh USA offers cleaned calamari packs of tubes, tubes and tentacles, and rings only.
Please See USPN #5326806 Harbor Banks Tubes and Tenticles. Packed by Sea Fresh USA from Rhode Island.
The squid come every year in the early spring, sometime around late April, early May. They travel in groups and in the spring, mostly male. People line up in the early evening to catch a glimpse of these soft bodied creatures, the ones with large well developed eyes.
Found from Greenland to Florida, the young squid three to six months old travel during April and May from the Grand Banks, Georgia Banks, and to the mid Atlantic, passing through Newport Harbor.
The highest concentration of squid occurs when the bottom temperature exceed 6-7 degrees Celsius. Of course, biological and predatory hunters also have an effect.
Adults migrate near Cape Hatteras and live no more than twelve to eighteen months dying immediately after spawning.
Known as a food source for a variety of fish, mammals, and birds, squid live at the bottom of the sea during the day and. propel upwards at night.
Squid, related to the octopus and a member of the mollusk family travel the depths of the deep waters. Several hundred varieties exist today, some as long as fifty feet and are distributed throughout the oceans of the world.
Used primarily as bait, squid were first harvested by the Japanese. Now a delicacy, chefs offer hundreds of ways to consume the fleshy cephalopod.
Because their arms and tentacles are attached directly to their heads, squid are known as “head footed”. A small internal spine extends along the back of the body and acts as its support. Their bodies are distinct. Cigar shaped with two triangular fins, a funnel, head, eight arms covered with suction cups and two tentacles, the squid move vertically in search of daily food.
The funnel is used as a means of propulsion moving forward or backward at a rapid pace. The squid have well developed eyes on either side of the head and a parrot like beak. Sometimes the squid change colors from an iridescent white and green to a rusty brown. As the squid expand and contract, the color cells act as a camouflage in response to an attack, and then emit a black ink to chase predators away.
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