Introduction
Cephalopod culture has gained momentum in many parts of the world for various rescarch activities, but has never figured prominently in mariculture as a source of food for man, mainly hecause traditional cephalopod fisheries have generally met the demand partly for protein for human consumption Cephalopods are unique among multicellular organisms in their ability to sustain true exponential growth for a significant portion of their life Laboratory studies offer the only viable option for studying the growth of squids during their delicatc early life stages. Cephalopods have been and often used extensively as research models, in neuroscience, in physiology (e.g, cardiac, circulatory, sensory and S muscle), molecular biology. nutritional immunology, biochemistry. oncology, aging and ethology The larger species of cuttlefishes and squids are preferred