Radioactive Gigantism? Giant Squid Stories Prompt Another Alarm Over Fukushima Disaster

THE VOICE OF RUSSIA – January 15, 2014 

Last week reports of two different giant squids surfaced on the internet. Although recent reports of an enormous squid washed up on shore in California turned out to be false, a giant squid hauled in by a fisherman in Japan last week appears to be quite real. The stories prompted another rash of concern about Fukushima radiation which could have caused genetic mutations in sea creatures that triggered uncontrolled growth — or “radioactive gigantism.”

As they hauled in their net on the frigid seas off Japan’s Sadogashima Island in Niigata Prefecture, Shigenori Goto and the crew of his boat were hoping for a good catch of yellowtail. Instead, what slowly appeared was a mammoth squid, still alive.

The squid died when it was hauled to the surface. It measured 19 feet in length and weighed just over 350 pounds.

Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DARu8AYCl4Q

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