An octopus farm in Spain’s Canary Islands aims to raise a million squid for consumption every year. Scientists warn urgently.
Wild-caught squid with pots, lines and traps end up on plates all over the world. For decades, people have wanted to breed the precious animals.
One thousand community pools in a two-storey building
In 2019, Spanish fishing company Nueva Pescanova said they had made a breakthrough. Plans now revealed show the octopuses will be housed in a thousand community tanks in a two-storey building in the port of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria – sometimes under permanent lighting.
Aggressive death by “ice slush” method
Scientists are sounding the alarm: the octopuses are loners and used to the dark. “Large numbers of squid should never be kept together in a small space,” said Jonathan Birch of the London School of Economics. The animals are killed by placing them in containers with water at minus three degrees Celsius. This “ice slush” method means a slow and painful death.
laws are missing
Unfortunately, there are still no laws regarding these intelligent creatures as they have never been commercially bred before.
Source: Krone
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