What kinds of squids can we import from China?

Short squid introduction from Ocean Treasure. Ocean Treasure Foods Limited is a frozen seafood exporter and a full-service provider with customers throughout Europe, North Africa, Latin America, and the USA. We are qualified to supply a wide range of seafood from Asia, especially from Mainland China and Vietnam.

Ocean Treasure is committed to satisfying the needs of international business through inclusive market information, competitive prices, total quality control, reliability, on-time delivery, and multilingual services. Ocean Treasure is also always innovating by developing and expanding its product range.

The Japanese flying squid

The Japanese flying squid, Japanese common squid or Pacific flying squid, scientific name Todarodes pacificus. This animal lives in the northern Pacific Ocean, in the area surrounding Japan, along the entire coast of China up to Russia, then spreading across the Bering Strait east towards the southern coast of Alaska and Canada. They tend to cluster around the central region of Vietnam.

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Illex argentinus

Illex argentinus, also as the Argentine shortfin squid is from the South Western Atlantic Ocean. It is most prevalent along the coasts of South America, Brazil, and Argentina. They are some of the most sought after squid species. It’s like some of the largest fisheries in the world are along these coasts, capturing millions of pounds of this shortfin squid a year.

North Pacific Squid

North Pacific Squid (Ommastrephes bartramii) is a species of large flying squid in the family Ommastrephidae. They are in subtropical and temperate oceanic waters globally.

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Nototodarus sloanii

Nototodarus sloanii is a species of squid commonly known as the New Zealand arrow squid or Wellington flying squid. It is a favored prey species of a number of marine mammals and diving birds.

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The giant squid

The giant squid (Architeuthis dux) is a species of deep-ocean dwelling squid in the family  Architeuthidae. Giant squid can grow to a tremendous size(one of the largest living organisms ). It is mainly in the waters moving in the central Pacific Ocean. It has developed on a large scale by countries such as Japan and China, with maximum annual output exceeding 200,000 tons.

That’s our Squid introduction from Ocean treasure.

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