Editing Octopus (section)

===As a food source===
{{Main|Octopus as food}}
[[File:Tako nigiri 2.jpg|thumb|Octopus [[sushi]]]]
Octopuses [[fisheries|are fished]] around the world and between 1988 and 1995, catches varied between 245,320 and 322,999 metric tons.<ref name=gillespie>{{cite web |last1=Gillespie |first1=G. E. |last2=Parker |first2=G. |last3=Morrison |first3=J. |date=1998 |title=A Review of Octopus Fisheries Biology and British Columbia Octopus Fisheries |publisher=Canadian Stock Assessment Secretariat |url=https://waves-vagues.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/Library/227412.pdf}}</ref> The world catch peaked in 2007 at 380,000 tons, and had fallen by a tenth by 2012.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rocliffe |first1=S. |last2=Harris |first2=A. |url=https://blueventures.org/publication/status-octopus-fisheries-western-indian-ocean/ |title=The status of octopus fisheries in the Western Indian Ocean |year=2016 |access-date=18 June 2017}}</ref> Methods to capture octopuses include pots, [[fish trap|trapping]], [[trawling|trawling]], snaring, drift fishing, spearing, hooking and catching by hands.<ref name=gillespie/> Octopuses are also [[bycatch]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sauer |first1=Warwick H. H. |last2=Gleadall |first2=Ian G. |display-authors=etal |date=6 December 2019 |title=World Octopus Fisheries |journal=Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] |volume=29 |issue=3 |pages=279–429 |doi=10.1080/23308249.2019.1680603 |issn=2330-8249 |s2cid=210266167 |hdl-access=free |hdl=10261/227068}}</ref>

Octopus is eaten in many cultures, such as those on the Mediterranean and Asian coasts.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animal-guide/octopus-and-kin/giant-pacific-octopus |title=Giant Pacific octopus |website=[[Monterey Bay Aquarium]] |date=2017 |access-date=1 August 2015 |archive-date=4 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180704213912/http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animal-guide/octopus-and-kin/giant-pacific-octopus |url-status=dead }}</ref> The arms and other body parts are prepared in ways that vary by species and geography. Live octopuses or their wriggling pieces are consumed as ''[[san-nakji]]'' in Korean cuisine.<ref name="Guardian">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2010/nov/10/live-and-let-dine |access-date=15 April 2015| last=Eriksen |first=L. |date=10 November 2010 |work=[[The Guardian]] |title=Live and let dine}}</ref><ref name="Newyorker">{{cite magazine |date=3 October 2014 |title=Why not eat octopus? |last=Killingsworth |first=Silvia |url=http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/eating-octopus |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |access-date=15 April 2016}}</ref> If not prepared properly, however, the severed arms can choke the diner with their suction cups, causing at least one death in 2010.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dodgson |first=Lindsay |date=2019-05-11 |title=Here's why eating a live octopus can be deadly |url=https://www.insider.com/eating-live-octopus-can-kill-you-2019-5 |website=Insider}}</ref> Animal welfare groups have objected to the live consumption of octopuses on the basis that they can experience pain.<ref name="Observer">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/may/30/food-restaurants-macho-eating-live |title=Macho foodies in New York develop a taste for notoriety |access-date=15 April 2015 |last=Ferrier |first=M. |date=30 May 2010 |work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref>