Every October, he sells squid caught from a boat he pilots in treacherous coastal waters.
"Indian squid caught in the western Indian Ocean by hook and line is slightly more sustainable than jig," Clarke notes.
The young squid, caught off south-western Japan, are replicas of their gigantic parents who live in the deep.
The two squid caught together were caught in a purse seine net as, to the biologists' knowledge, "the first record of a simultaneous capture of paired giant squid".
Distributed throughout the Red and Arabian Seas and constituting up to 90% of squid catches off Thailand, the Indian squid is still to be assessed by the Good Fish Guide with ratings expected at the start of 2017.
Animal Planet's "Weird, True & Freaky," for instance, has featured a lobster so big that it was called Lobzilla; a python in Indonesia that measured 50 feet, thought to be the longest snake in recorded history ("handlers feed it three or four dogs a month"); and a 1,091-pound 1,091-poundt in Antarctica ("an eye the squidof a socaughtall").
The blue whale also incidentally consumes small fish, crustaceans and squid caught up with krill.
What comes out is curls of barely cooked squid, caught just at the point where it's somehow chewy and meltingly tender at the same time.
But until cameras actually catch the squid catching a meal, the researchers caution, the ideas they've put forth are just speculation.
He and his crew go out for 24 hours at a time, he said, cooking the small crabs and squid they catch in the nets.
