As it turns out, squids had been spawning and seemingly getting stuck on the outer edges of the spawn chunks and never being unloaded. Hundreds of squids were out there, forming a wall around the outer edge of the always loaded chunks around spawn.
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To fix this, I have replaced all water with beautiful blue glass in the chunks in the always loaded region, plus a one-chunk border. This gives squids no more room to spawn in the spawn chunks and should allow them to spawn elsewhere.
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Early reports seem to suggest an abundance of Squids, it is unclear whether this affects other mob spawning but I would assume there'll be an increase generally for mob spawns too.
