A new plan to build an octopus mega farm has scientists sounding alarms. Here’s why.
Over 90 million octopuses are caught and killed every year through commercial fishing processes. Now, a fishing company in Spain has proposed to build an octopus mega farm that would produce 3,000 tons of octopus meat a year or 1 million octopuses.
While those in favor of this plan state it will lessen the pressure on wild marine stocks, activists and scientists argue otherwise. Aquaculture has not contributed to fewer fish caught or reductions in overfishing, thus there is no proof that “mass production” of octopus would do the same.
