Todarodes pacificus
Todarodes pacificus (Steenstrup, 1880)
Japanese flying squid
Todarodes pacificus

Family:  Ommastrephidae (flying squids and arrow squids), subfamily: Todarodinae
Max. size:  50 cm ML (female); max.weight: 500.0 g
Environment:  pelagic; marine; depth range 0 - 500 m, oceanodromous
Distribution:  North Pacific: from northern Vietnam, north to Russia and east to Canada.
Diagnosis:   
Biology:  Common weight: 100 to 300 g (Ref. 275). Depth range is 36 to 184 m; and temperature is 12 to 20°C in Ref. 75927. Fished with jigging machines, demersal trawls, purse seines and set nets (Ref. 81298). Lives in surface waters of open oceans and coastal areas (Ref. 843). Feeds on myctophids, anchovies, crustaceans, gastropod larvae, chaetognaths (Ref. 275).
IUCN Red List Status: (LC); Date assessed: 10 May 2010 Ref. 123251)
Threat to humans: 
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