More than a million octopuses would be raised annually for food.
Scientists are deeply concerned about the welfare of intelligent sea creatures after learning of plans to build the world’s first octopus farm in history on Spain’s Canary Islands.
Over one million octopuses would be raised on the farm each year for food, according to private documents obtained by theThey have never been subjected to intensive farming, and some experts consider the suggested way of killing them in frigid water to be inhumane. The Spanish multinational in charge of the project disputes any harm to octopuses.
The protest group Eurogroup for Animals provided the BBC with the private planning proposal documents from the company Nueva Pescanova. The General Directorate ofThe octopuses, which are solitary creatures accustomed to the dark, would be kept in tanks with other octopuses, occasionally with continual light, according to Nueva Pescanova's proposals.
Around 1,000 community tanks would hold the octopus vulgaris creatures in a two-story structure at the port of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria.reported, an analysis of more than 300 scientific research, coordinated by an associate professor at the London School of Economics, Jonathan Birch claims, demonstrates thatThe UK's Animal Welfare Act 2022 recognized them as "sentient beings" as a result.
On the other hand, Nueva Pescanova said, "The levels of welfare requirements for the production of octopus or any other animal in our farming farms guarantee the correct handling of the animals. The slaughter, likewise, involves proper handling that avoids any pain or suffering to the animal ...
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