Interesting timing to roll this out now for next fall. My observation of squid is the average size has gotten smaller and the run timing gets earlier every year. 30 years ago we rarely caught squid before Christmas. Now it seems the bulk of the run is passed by then.
Commercial squidding has been attempted here before but it was not profitable. In California the squid come straight in from the Ocean in a massive school making them easy to scoop up.
I don’t think this will be successful, and of course there will be bycatch!