Sanford's squid game

Sanford's squid game
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Rebecca Stevenson
Where were the squid? New Zealand stock exchange-listed fishing company Sanford’s squid catch fell 58% year-on-year, it reported on Tuesday, forcing the company to harvest less profitable species such as southern blue whiting.Sanford chief executive Craig Ellison said, “It didn’t congregate where we thought it was, or we didn’t find it”. Squid only live for one year and are an unpredictable fishing stock, fluctuating “quite widely”, Ellison said. Lower squid catchSanford's squid harve...

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