Spearman Rank + Quadratic Regression (spps) HELP! x

Hi,
I'm trying to find out if there is a significant correlation between salinity and no. of Bivalves found on a shore. I did a Spearman Rank and this was my result:
"There was a statistically significant correlation between Salinity and the number of Bivalvia individuals (Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficient, rs = 0.63, n = 40, P < 0.05)."
But then I did quadratic regression and it's saying it's not significant, with a P value of 0.267 !!
How can this be when my rs value is pretty close to +1?
Am I using the wrong tests?? If so, what do I use??
Many thanks.

Whenever you get a discrepancy like this, it's likely to mean that the assumptions that underlie at least one of the tests do not hold. The starting point for any bivariate analysis like this is to plot the data. What do you see when you do this?

The relationship looked quite weak...
Although, I also performed other tests that said Salinity was significantly high at a certain site and significantly low at another, then another test said that Bivalvia was significantly high and low at the same sites so I was trying to conclude with a strong correlation... I guess it's all fell apart now

If you post a plot of your data, I can make some more suggestions.

Ok, I have attached it!