All I know is that when ever I catch a 25 lb. Pacific octopus in my spot prawn traps, and even if they have gluttonously consumed all the prawns I thought I'd caught and should have been mine alone, I just simply need to return them quickly to the sea and try to eat "LOWER ON THE FOOD CHAIN"......by having an oyster or clam instead.
These are highly evolved creatures of the deep. When you "connect" and hold them in your hands and they look back at you with such INTELLIGENCE and WONDERMENT, you have to give your head a shake and think twice about how special all life is on this precious planet and what you are going to have for dinner that day.