I am surprised it is happening only now, it is a fishery that has only been utilized by sports fishermen and poachers. While 50,000 pounds sounds high I suspect that it is not out of line with the squid numbers in Puget Sound. It looks like the fishery is setup to be a bit of a research program to determine population levels in the sound. Several UW graduate students have done squid research but most of their data has come from sport fishermen interviews. From limited experience this past year, a couple of hours squidding a week at sunset, I think it is not unreasonable to think the sports catch was a minimum of 5000 pounds a month from September through December. Squidding was good this year.