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Chapter 4
Historical Review of Cephalopods Culture
António V. Sykes, Noussithé Koueta and Carlos Rosas
J. Iglesias et al. (eds.), Cephalopod Culture, DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-8648-5_4,
© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
A. V. Sykes ()
CCMAR-CIMAR L.A., Centro de Ciências do Mar do Algarve,
Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas,
8005-139, Faro, Portugal
e-mail: asykes@ualg.pt
N. Koueta
Laboratoire de Biologie des Mollusques Marins et des Ecosystèmes Associés:
BioMEA, Université de Caen, 14032, Caen Cedex, France
e-mail: noussithe.koueta@unicaen.fr
C. Rosas
Unidad Multidisciplinaria de Docencia e Investigación,
Facultad de Ciencias—UNAM, Puerto de Abrigo s/n Sisal.
Opio. Hunucma, Yucatan, Mexico
e-mail: crv@ciencias.unam.mx
Abstract This chapter reviews the history of cephalopod culture since the 1960s
until 2000, compiling the most important contributions in each decade and identifying
key research laboratories and researchers. The literature found is vast in cephalopod species, methodologies and technology. Hence, this chapter focuses mainly on
those species with an established aquaculture potential. It includes a description of
the evolving seawater systems, broodstock acclimatisation to captivity and rearing/
culture methodologies of different life stages.
Keywords Cephalopod culture history · Cuttlefish · Model species · Octopus ·
Squid
4.1 Cephalopods as Model Species for Science—the Need
for Aquaculture
Cephalopods have been used as experimental models in neurobiology since the beginning of the twentieth century (Gariaeff 1906; van der Sprenkel 1929; Arvanitaki
et al. 1936a, b; Young 1938). Species of this class gained momentum as models for
science in 1963, when Alan L. Hodgkin and Andrew F. Huxley won the Nobel Prize
Chapter 4
Historical Review of Cephalopods Culture
António V. Sykes, Noussithé Koueta and Carlos Rosas
J. Iglesias et al. (eds.), Cephalopod Culture, DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-8648-5_4,
© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
A. V. Sykes ()
CCMAR-CIMAR L.A., Centro de Ciências do Mar do Algarve,
Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas,
8005-139, Faro, Portugal
e-mail: asykes@ualg.pt
N. Koueta
Laboratoire de Biologie des Mollusques Marins et des Ecosystèmes Associés:
BioMEA, Université de Caen, 14032, Caen Cedex, France
e-mail: noussithe.koueta@unicaen.fr
C. Rosas
Unidad Multidisciplinaria de Docencia e Investigación,
Facultad de Ciencias—UNAM, Puerto de Abrigo s/n Sisal.
Opio. Hunucma, Yucatan, Mexico
e-mail: crv@ciencias.unam.mx
Abstract This chapter reviews the history of cephalopod culture since the 1960s
until 2000, compiling the most important contributions in each decade and identifying
key research laboratories and researchers. The literature found is vast in cephalopod species, methodologies and technology. Hence, this chapter focuses mainly on
those species with an established aquaculture potential. It includes a description of
the evolving seawater systems, broodstock acclimatisation to captivity and rearing/
culture methodologies of different life stages.
Keywords Cephalopod culture history · Cuttlefish · Model species · Octopus ·
Squid
4.1 Cephalopods as Model Species for Science—the Need
for Aquaculture
Cephalopods have been used as experimental models in neurobiology since the beginning of the twentieth century (Gariaeff 1906; van der Sprenkel 1929; Arvanitaki
et al. 1936a, b; Young 1938). Species of this class gained momentum as models for
science in 1963, when Alan L. Hodgkin and Andrew F. Huxley won the Nobel Prize