A specimen o[ the squid, Gonatus sp., was captured through an ice hole at 79° 58'
N. lat. , 170° 23' E. lang. (about 500 miles north of Wrangel fsland, Siberia) whose
condition suggests it had spawned just before its capture an March 30, 1962. The emaciated condition is described in specimens of other Californian female Gonatus that presumably had spawned just before capture, and a brief review is given of the records of the degeneration and fatal effects from spawning by females in otlzer genera of squid and octopods