> I'm from the south of Portugal Great. Then you should be able to grasp a few really basic concepts. 1) Some countries need to trust in seafood to feed their

> I'm from the south of Portugal Great. Then you should be able to grasp a few really basic concepts. 1) Some countries need to trust in seafood to feed their population. Portugal for example. Remove cod overnight and a lot of Portuguese will have problems to feed their family accurately. Do we want that? Do you think that octopus are "smart" and cod are "dumb" so one is kosher and the other not? Well... This is pseudo-religious thinking, neither based in logic, nor supported by real biological knowledge. 2) In the market, more offer leads normally to a decrease in prices. So is easy to understand that more affordable prices benefit mostly the lower classes (aka poor people). People that weren't able to buy some food can now eat it. 3) Alleviate the excessive predatory pressure over a species is a desirable outcome. Alleviate the pressure over the wild fisheries of octopus is good for the species of octopus, not bad. Think in all the octopus children that will survive now instead being killed in their tender infancy while sucking an ice-crab cream (eh, emotional manipulation is a lot of fun. I should use it more). The farmed octopus? would not live otherwise. In my book living a short live is better that non living at all. Specially when you are a short lived species and a year means like 50 years in human time. And you should support the "sad women octopus that avoid now a cruel and painful dead starving for months while crying in a dark crevice after being raped by an evil male". Don't you? Facing a quick painless death after living a happy life in a place without predators or diseases and with plenty of food and home rocks doesn't look so bad now. Who knows? Maybe this solitary creatures will finally have time for developing Philosophy, shell's art or playing Squidspeare in the park