Climate change is affecting the ecosystem dynamics of the Arabian, and a possible sign of this is reports from fishermen, who indicate an unusual increase in the population of purple squid in Pakistani waters since November 2016. Earlier this year, fishermen located unprecedented concentrations of this squid offshore off the coast of Sindh and Balochistan, particularly at the Khori Great Bank (along the coast of Sindh) and in Malan (Balochistan). The purpleback squid (Sthenoteuthis oualaniensis) lives in open waters from the surface down to depths of around 1,000 m of ocean. It exhibits diurnal vertical migration and moves from deeper layers to surface or shallower waters during night. According to Muhammad Moazzam Khan, a technical advisor on WWF-Pakistan’s marine fisheries, in some other areas of the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf an unprecedented occurrence of purpleback squid during November and December 2016 could also be seen, The News reported. Fishermen in Fujairah, in the United Arab Emirates caught a large number of this oceanic squid in November 2016. Similarly, very high catches of this species were recorded from Oman. Squids coming from both these areas were processed and exported. However, processing industry in Pakistan has not yet taken any such step for harvesting, processing and export of this cephalopod. Like Dr. Pirzada Jamal, a marine biologist at the University of Karachi, Khan believes it is possible that climate change may have influenced the unprecedented occurrence of oceanic squids in Pakistani waters. Therefore, he stresses that while this species is in abundance, “there is an opportunity for the Pakistan’s fisheries industry to gear up for exporting this high priced commodity to Far East Asian countries.’