Calamari was on the menu all week for these villagers after a local fisherman caught an eight-foot-long (2.4 metres) giant squid.<br /><br />The enormous marine creature was hauled ashore on Friday morning at around 9am local time in the remote island region of Tawi-tawi, Philippines. <br /><br />Dozens of stunned residents crowded round the bright white squid - measuring 18 inches wide - as it lay on the ground in the remote coastal village. <br /><br />A tape measured stretched out over the creature shows it to be just over 8ft long - the biggest the region has ever seen. <br /><br />Harold Eduardo Curtis, a fisherman on the island who saw the squid, said: ''I know the fisherman who caught this squid. It was hard for him to bring it in because of the weight.<br /><br />''The beautiful feature of this squid was how clean it was, how bright and white. It was a very healthy squid and still young. The meat will taste very good.<br /><br />''This is the biggest I have ever seen caught here. It looks like it is from a family of large squid, so there will be more out in the ocean of this size and maybe even bigger.''<br /><br />+STILLS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST+
