This Big Island Octopus Research Facility Is Drawing The Wrath Of Animal Rights Activists … But the Kanaloa Octopus Farm’s owner says the group is off target. The farm is trying to save the species, not serve it for dinner.
Octopus, also known as he’e or tako, is a popular Hawaii cuisine, served grilled, smoked, fried, dried or raw.
Around the world, people are catching on.
A growing appetite for octopus from the Mediterranean to South America is driving researchers on multiple continents to study land-based octopus farming, a form of aquaculture that proponents tout as a sustainable alternative to catching octopus in the wild.
Unlike salmon, shrimp and seaweed, industrial-scale farming of octopus remains under development as scientists struggle to learn how to recreate the fragile, eight-armed creature’s lifecycle in an aquarium tank.
