The race to stop octopus farming before it starts

Last year, California and Washington state banned farming octopuses for their meat, and bills have been introduced in seven other states — plus the US Senate — to do the same. Lawmakers in Chile and Spain are weighing a prohibition on farming them, too.  All this legislative activity, and yet there’s not a single octopus farm anywhere in the world.  Inside this story A Spanish seafood company, Nueva Pescanova, is looking to build the world’s first octopus farm in the Canary Islands. The farm would raise around 1 million octopuses annually in small tanks, where the animal...

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