> The number of octopuses in the wild are decreasing and prices are going up. An estimated 350,000 tonnes are caught each year - more than 10 times the number c

> The number of octopuses in the wild are decreasing and prices are going up. An estimated 350,000 tonnes are caught each year - more than 10 times the number caught in 1950. I don't think people are going to stop eating octopus anytime soon. So wouldn't it be prudent to preserve the wild population as much as possible? It seems to me the only way to accomplish this is raise them in large quantities. According to Wikipedia: > Octopuses have a food conversion efficiency greater than that of chickens, making octopus aquaculture a possibility.