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== Species ==
== Species ==
[[File:Octopus capture.png|thumb|300px|left|Graph showing the decline in the global capture production (in tonnes) of the common octopus over recent years (source [[FAO]]<ref>[http://www.fao.org/fishery/species/3571/en ''Octopus vulgaris''] FAO: Species Fact Sheets, Rome.</ref>)]]
[[File:Octopus.svg|thumb|300px|right|Graph showing the decline in the global capture production (in tonnes) of the common octopus over recent years (source [[FAO]]<ref>[http://www.fao.org/fishery/species/3571/en ''Octopus vulgaris''] FAO: Species Fact Sheets, Rome.</ref>)]]


The [[aquaculture]] potential of several octopus species has been investigated in recent years, including ''Octopus maya'',<ref>Rosas, C., Cuzon, G., Pascual, C., Gaxiola, G., Chay, Lòpez, N., Maldonado, T., Domingues, P.M. (2007) [http://www.springerlink.com/content/a84935868w568u14/ "Energy balance of Octopus maya fed crab or an artificial diet"] ''Marine Biology,'' '''152''': 371–381.</ref> ''[[Octopus bimaculoides]]'',<ref>Solorzano, Y., Viana, M.T., López, L.Mc, Correa, J.G.,True, C.C., Rosas, C. (2009) [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0044848609000489 "Response of newly hatched'' Octopus bimaculoides'' fed enriched ''Artemia salina'': Growth performance, ontogeny of the digestive enzyme and tissue amino acid content"] ''Aquaculture,'' '''289''': 84–90.</ref> ''[[Octopus ocellatus]]'',<ref>Segawa, S., Nomoto, A. (2002) [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/umrsmas/bullmar/2002/00000071/00000002/art00017 "Laboratory growth, feeding, oxygen consumption and ammonia excretion of ''Octopus ocellatus''"] ''Bulletin of Marine Science,'' '''71''': 801–813.</ref> and ''Octopus mimus''.<ref>Baltazar, P., Rodríguez, P., Rivera, W., Valdivieso, V. (2000) [http://sisbib.unmsm.edu.pe/Bvrevistas/biologia/v07_n2/culti_experi.htm "Cultivo experimental de ''Octopus mimus'', Gould 1852 en perú"] ''Revista Peruana de Biología,'' '''7''': 151–160.</ref>
The [[aquaculture]] potential of several octopus species has been investigated in recent years, including ''Octopus maya'',<ref>Rosas, C., Cuzon, G., Pascual, C., Gaxiola, G., Chay, Lòpez, N., Maldonado, T., Domingues, P.M. (2007) [http://www.springerlink.com/content/a84935868w568u14/ "Energy balance of Octopus maya fed crab or an artificial diet"] ''Marine Biology,'' '''152''': 371–381.</ref> ''[[Octopus bimaculoides]]'',<ref>Solorzano, Y., Viana, M.T., López, L.Mc, Correa, J.G.,True, C.C., Rosas, C. (2009) [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0044848609000489 "Response of newly hatched'' Octopus bimaculoides'' fed enriched ''Artemia salina'': Growth performance, ontogeny of the digestive enzyme and tissue amino acid content"] ''Aquaculture,'' '''289''': 84–90.</ref> ''[[Octopus ocellatus]]'',<ref>Segawa, S., Nomoto, A. (2002) [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/umrsmas/bullmar/2002/00000071/00000002/art00017 "Laboratory growth, feeding, oxygen consumption and ammonia excretion of ''Octopus ocellatus''"] ''Bulletin of Marine Science,'' '''71''': 801–813.</ref> and ''Octopus mimus''.<ref>Baltazar, P., Rodríguez, P., Rivera, W., Valdivieso, V. (2000) [http://sisbib.unmsm.edu.pe/Bvrevistas/biologia/v07_n2/culti_experi.htm "Cultivo experimental de ''Octopus mimus'', Gould 1852 en perú"] ''Revista Peruana de Biología,'' '''7''': 151–160.</ref>

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The common octopus, Octopus vulgaris

The development of octopus aquaculture, the farming of octopus, is being driven by strong market demands in the Mediterranean and in South American and Asian countries.[1] Octopus live short lives, growing rapidly and maturing early. They typically reach two or three kilograms (high weights for invertebrates). There is little overlap between successive generations.[2]

The supply of octopus has been constrained by overfishing in many key fisheries.[3] The common octopus seems particularly suitable for aquaculture. However, it is currently difficult to culture the early life stages of octopus and maintain high survival rates for their paralarvae. This difficulty is limiting the development of fully closed life cycle octopus hatchery systems.

Species

Graph showing the decline in the global capture production (in tonnes) of the common octopus over recent years (source FAO[4])

The aquaculture potential of several octopus species has been investigated in recent years, including Octopus maya,[5] Octopus bimaculoides,[6] Octopus ocellatus,[7] and Octopus mimus.[8]

The common octopus, Octopus vulgaris, appears to be the most serious candidate for aquaculture in terms of its biological and market potential.[9] It has a worldwide distribution in tropical, subtropical and temperate waters. It is a benthic species occurring from the coastal line to the outer edge of the continental shelf, at depths of up to 200 m and in very diverse marine habitats.[10] The common octopus is easily adapted to captive conditions and has a rapid growth rate of 5% body weight per day.[9] It also has a high feed conversion rate with 30–60% of ingested food being incorporated in its own weight,[11][12] and a high fecundity of 100,000–500,000 eggs per female.[11]

Temperature

There is an optimum temperature at which a cold-blooded species does best in terms of growth, survival and food intake. The common octopus is sensitive to temperature, with an optimum range for commercial growth of 16–21 °C.[12] Above its optimal thermal range, growth and food intake decrease, and above 23 °C loss in weight and increased mortality has been recorded.[12] A narrow thermal band can mean seasonality in growth due to seasonal variations in water temperatures. The incorporation of temperature control mechanisms, such as in the use of closed or onshore farming systems, can reduce seasonal variances in production.[12]

Nutrition

Crustaceans, such as crabs and lobster are an important dietary constituent of both natural and captive populations of octopus.[13] Fish are not as important. Fish based diets have been shown to provide both lower growth rates and food conversion to growth ratios in captive octopus. This may be due to high lipid levels in fish flesh.[12] Cephalopods, such as octopus and squids, show low lipid digestibility as a result of low lipid requirements. Consequently a large component of the fish feed will not be taken up.[14] Crustacean diets are favored possibly due to their high protein relative to lipid levels.[12]

Whether octopus farming is profitable depends on how much it costs to maintain a steady supply of crustaceans.[13] Economic profitability can be maximized without significantly compromising biological productivity by incorporating a mix of fish and crustacean based feed strategies. García García and Cerezo Velverde (2006) found a feeding regime of one day of crab followed by three days of fish can reduce the cost of producing one kg of octopus by a predicted value of €2.96.[13]

Juveniles

Commercial aquaculture sofar has been confined to starting with young juveniles caught in the wild, weighing about 750g. In Spain, these juveniles are purchased from local fisherman and transferred to offshore floating sea cages. There they are fattened with bycatch (fish, molluscs and crabs) for several months until a commercial size, about 3 kilograms, is reached. However, acquiring juveniles in this way, from the wild, further increases the fishing pressure on octopus stocks that are already managed badly, possibly producing cascades in marine ecosystems. A cost analysis of this practice found that over 40% of total costs went into acquiring the juveniles. The profitability of this approach is low, depending as it does on fishing and the supply of sub-adults, a costly and highly variable process.[15]

Paralarva

The bottleneck, currently hindering the commercial development of octopus aquaculture, is the difficulty rearing octopus during their early paralarva stage.[16][17] Paralarva is the name given to the larva of cephalapods. Paralarvae are small, less than 3 millimetres when born, with a long life stage as plankton. Current rearing techniques are inadequate, resulting in very high morality rates.[18] Results vary when octopus paralarva are fed different combinations of prey. The best results have been with a mix of brine shrimp and other living prey, such as crab zoeae.[16][1] However the survival and settlement rates of the paralarvae is typically low in such studies, highlighting the difficulties in raising octopus paralarvae. Maintaining high survival rates for octopus paralarvae appears to be the main factor limiting the development of a fully closed life cycle octopus hatchery system.[19]

To achieve both profitable and environmentally sustainable results, a lot of research has been focused on paralarval rearing.[17] In 2005, scientists from the principal research groups in the field concluded the key factor affecting paralarval mortality is nutrition, making nutritional research the highest priority.[19] There is "no reason not to believe that the aquacultural rearing of octopus will be of great economic potential" as soon as the rearing technology and nutritional issues have been developed.[15] The research in these areas is promising.[15]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Iglesias, J., Otero, J.J., Moxica, C., Fuentes, L., Sánchez, F.J. (2004) "The completed life cycle of the octopus (Octopus vulgaris, Cuvier) under culture conditions: paralarval rearing using Artemia and zoeae, and first data on juvenile growth up to 8 months of age" Aquac. Int. 12: 481–487.
  2. ^ Boyle, P.R., Rodhouse, P.G. (2005) Cephalopods: ecology and fisheries Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9780632060481.
  3. ^ FAO (2010) The State of the World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2010. FAO, Rome. Page 41.
  4. ^ Octopus vulgaris FAO: Species Fact Sheets, Rome.
  5. ^ Rosas, C., Cuzon, G., Pascual, C., Gaxiola, G., Chay, Lòpez, N., Maldonado, T., Domingues, P.M. (2007) "Energy balance of Octopus maya fed crab or an artificial diet" Marine Biology, 152: 371–381.
  6. ^ Solorzano, Y., Viana, M.T., López, L.Mc, Correa, J.G.,True, C.C., Rosas, C. (2009) "Response of newly hatched Octopus bimaculoides fed enriched Artemia salina: Growth performance, ontogeny of the digestive enzyme and tissue amino acid content" Aquaculture, 289: 84–90.
  7. ^ Segawa, S., Nomoto, A. (2002) "Laboratory growth, feeding, oxygen consumption and ammonia excretion of Octopus ocellatus" Bulletin of Marine Science, 71: 801–813.
  8. ^ Baltazar, P., Rodríguez, P., Rivera, W., Valdivieso, V. (2000) "Cultivo experimental de Octopus mimus, Gould 1852 en perú" Revista Peruana de Biología, 7: 151–160.
  9. ^ a b Iglesias J., Sánchez F.J. and Otero J.J. (1997) "Primeras experiencias sobre el cultivo integral del pulpo (Octopus vulgaris, Cuvier) en el Instituto Español de Oceanografía". In: Costa J., Abellán E., García García B., Ortega A. and Zamora S. (Eds.), VI Congreso Nacional de Acuicultura, Cartagena, Spain, pp. 221–226.
  10. ^ Guerra, A. (1992) "Mollusca: Cephalopoda" In: Ramos, M.A., et al. (Eds.) Fauna Iberica, vol. 1. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid, p. 327. ISSN:84-00-07010-0.
  11. ^ a b Mangold, K.M. (1983) "Octopus vulgaris". In: Boyle, P.R. (Ed.), Cephalopod Life Cycles, vol. 1. Academic Press, London, pp. 335–364.
  12. ^ a b c d e f Aguado, F., García García, B. (2002) "Growth and food intake models in Octopus vulgaris Cuvier/1797: influence of body weight, temperature, sex and diet" Aquac. Int. 10: 361–377.
  13. ^ a b c García García, B., Cerezo Valverde, J. (2006) "Optimal proportions of crabs and fish in diet for common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) ongrowing" Aquaculture, 253: 502–511.
  14. ^ Lee P.G. (1994) "Nutrition of cephalopods: Fueling the system" In: Pörtner H.O., O’Dor R.K. and Mac- millan D.L. (eds), Physiology of Cephalopod Molluscs: Lifestyle and Performance Adaptations Gordon & Brench Publishers, Switzerland, pp. 35–51.
  15. ^ a b c García García, J., Rodriguez Gonzalez, L.M., García García, B. (2004) "Cost analysis of octopus ongrowing installation in Galicia" Span. Jour. Agr. Res. 2(4): 521-537.
  16. ^ a b Carrasco, J.F., Arronte, J.C., Rodríguez, C. (2006) "Paralarval rearing of the common octopus, Octopus vulgaris (Cuvier)" Aquac. Res. 37: 1601–1605.
  17. ^ a b Vaz-Pires, P., Seixas, P., Barbosa, A. (2004) "Aquaculture potential of the common octopus (Octopus vulgaris Cuvier, 1797): a review" Aquaculture, 238(1–4): 221–238.
  18. ^ Moxica, C; F. Linares, J. J. Otero, J. Iglesias and F. J. Sánchez(2002) "Cultivo intensivo de paralarvas de pulpo, Octopus vulgaris Cuvier, 1797, en tanques de 9 m3" Bol. Inst. Esp. Oceanogr., 18 (1-4): 31-36.
  19. ^ a b Iglesiasa J.; F.J. Sáncheza, J.G.F. Bersanob, J.F. Carrascoc, J. Dhontd, L. Fuentesa, F. Linarese, J.L. Muñozf, S. Okumurag, J. Rooh, T. van der Meereni, E.A.G. Vidalj and R. Villanuevak (2007) "Rearing of Octopus vulgaris paralarvae: Present status, bottlenecks and trends" Aquaculture, 266 (1-4): 1–15.

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