Why Dina's First Proposed Octopus Farm Under Criticism?

 Why is Dina's first proposed octopus farm under fire? A company called Nueva Pescanova has been breeding octopuses in captivity for years. The company also plans to formally seek permission from the relevant authorities for octopus farming in the Canary Islands. In 2019, he announced that he had discovered a method for mass-breeding octopuses for commercial purposes.

Nueva Pescanova is the first company to do so.
Until now, the octopuses sold as food have either been caught during hunting or raised in small farms, with an area much smaller than the octopus farm proposed by Nueva Pescanova.

Nuova Pescanova says it wants to meet demand in Japan and the United States by breeding octopuses on a large scale.

But experts have criticized his octopus farming venture. These experts object to the company's proposed method of killing octopuses.

How will the octopuses be killed on the Nueva Pescanova farm?
Documents related to Nueva Pescanova's octopus farming plan, leaked by a person connected to the matter, seen by DW, show the company plans to produce around one million octopuses per year.

In this way, it will be able to supply about 3,000 tons of octopus meat to its customers in a year.
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According to the documents, the octopuses at Nueva Pescanova's farm will be killed by the "ice slurry" method. That is, they will be submerged in 500 liters of cold water, which will cause their body temperature to drop and eventually cause them to die of severe frostbite.

DW reached out to Nueva Pescanova for its position on the matter but had not received a response by the time of publishing this article.

'Extremely long and painful death
Octopus expert Carrie Tighe says killing octopuses with ice slurry would make their death "extremely long and painful".

The European Union has already recommended not adopting this method of killing fish.
Zoe Doubleday, a marine ecologist at the University of South Australia, also says there are better and kinder ways to kill octopuses. They suggested anesthetizing the octopuses by placing them in seawater mixed with magnesium and three percent ethanol before killing them, but it is unclear whether the octopuses killed after this process would be safe to eat.

'Cruel and difficult conditions
According to leaked documents, Nueva Pescanova plans to confine 10 to 15 octopuses to a narrow one-cubic-meter space for breeding, where they will be exposed to 24-hour light during reproduction.

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Talking about this, Zoe Doubleday said that octopuses do not like artificial bright light and these conditions can be cruel and difficult for them.

He said that octopuses need a cave-like 'dungeon' in their tank, which can be filled with pipes or a vessel. The welfare of has to be taken into consideration."
Carey TG believes Nueva Pescanova's octopus farming application could be decided any day in the coming days.

The company applied a year ago, he told DW, "so they now plan to make rapid progress on it. And since they already have octopuses in their labs, it can be said They can start their cultivation immediately after the formation of the farm."