The World’s First Commercial Octopus Farm Is Dead in Its Tracks After Scientists and a 9-Year-Old Helped Fight It

The World’s First Commercial Octopus Farm Is Dead in Its Tracks After Scientists and a 9-Year-Old Helped Fight It

An octopus farm proposal sparked global uproar from animal welfare advocates, scientists and ordinary people – including one 9-year-old.

How Octopuses Won a Fight Against Factory Farming

Plans to build the world’s first commercial octopus farm are dead. On July 22, the Port Authority of Las Palmas announced that Nueva Pescanova, the Spanish seafood giant behind the proposal, had withdrawn its application to build the octopus farm in the Canary Islands.How did this happen? It followed a coordinated effort by more than a hundred scientists, dozens of conservation and animal advocacy groups and tens of thousands of ordinary citizen…

New Jersey should ban octopus farming

A bill has been sponsored in the New Jersey legislature that would preemptively prohibit octopus aquaculture in the state: S. 1080 / A. 1537. It would ban raising, selling, possessing, transporting, or distributing farm-raised octopus within the state.