Eating octopus is one of the most beloved culinary delicacies in many regions of north Africa, Europe, and east Asia. Well, octopus dishes are one of the most popular dishes across the globe. Looking at its popularity, Nueva Pescanova, a seafood company, is hoping to launch the world’s first-ever large-scale octopus farm in the Canary Islands, Spain. But is it really a good idea to go ahead with it?
World’s First-Ever Large-Scale Octopus Farm
A seafood company called Nueva Pescanova has been cultivating octopuses in captivity for several years with the goal of requesting a licence to farm them in the Canary Islands.
The business claimed to have developed a method of mass producing the creatures for commercial use in 2019. Before that time, no business had figured out how to accomplish this.
Octopuses are bred in the middle of the sea in tiny farms. But they are just a fraction of the size of the farm proposed by this seafood company. But many octopus experts have opposed this plan because these farms might kill these animals. Octopuses were announced to be capable of feeling pain in various studies in 2021.
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The Method Planned Can Be Termed Insensitive
According to the records, the company intends to raise about a million octopuses annually. This will help in yielding about 3,000 metric tonnes of octopus meat.
A process known as ice slurry slaughter would be used to kill the them. The creatures would be placed in containers filled with freezing water, where they would experience hypothermia and ultimately freeze to death.
Throughout their reproductive seasons, these animals will be exposed to 24 hours of light and breed in places that are crammed with about 10–15 of them per cubic metre. Octopuses are nocturnal animals and are not used to bright artificial lights. Hence, this makes the method of breeding extremely inhumane and insensitive.
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