![]() ![]() I completed my PhD with a fisheries biologist named Daniel Pauly, who runs this program called The Sea Around Us. And thanks for addressing such an important topic. Could you start off by perhaps telling us a little bit about your background? Like what’s got you to this point now, where you’re researching and talking about octopuses in this situation? Jacquet, thank you so much for joining us today. But today, I’m very excited to dive into the reality of what life on an octopus farm might be like, what’s driving the demand for octopuses, and a little bit more about why it’s been so hard to actually successfully farm these animals. ![]() But a lot of the operation, a lot of the work that’s being done is happening in mainland Spain, so I didn’t get to see any of that. And there’s a bit of good news in that there is no construction happening there yet. I actually just spent the last month over there. ![]() And as far as I know, they’ve proposed what is the world’s first factory farm for octopuses in Gran Canaria, which is a Spanish island off the coast of northwest Africa. As some of you might already know, the Spanish fishing company Nueva Pescanova has been trying to work on the process of factory farming octopuses. But today, we are going to have a special octopus edition with Dr. Normally, with our guests, we talk about a variety of topics or a variety of animals, a variety of experiences. Hello, and welcome to the Sentient Media Podcast, where we meet the people who are changing the way we think about and interact with the world around us. I’m so encouraged by how much resistance there is to this idea. I am just baffled at how this is possible. It’s octopus vulgaris, and you have it winning the Academy Award, winning a BAFTA, and then in the same breath, announcing that we’re going to put into mass production. I mean, My Octopus teacher, it’s the same species. We really do have to ask ourselves why we would do this in the 21st century to an animal that the world is in love with. Jacquet discusses the state of the growing octopus farming industry around the world, what life would be like for animals on the world’s first octopus factory farm proposed by Nueva Pescanova, and how this widely opposed form of intensive aquaculture can be stopped before it begins. ![]()
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