Plans for the world's first octopus farm have been abandoned. As the controversial project folds, several nations and US states are banning octopus farming before it even begins.

Plans for the world's first octopus 'megafarm' have been cancelled amid a flurry of ethical and environmental concerns.

Demand for octopus as food has grown significantly in recent decades. Yet with concerns around overfishing restricting the number of wild octopuses caught, businesses have been researching how they ...

Compassion in World Farming has welcomed a landmark victory after Nueva Pescanova today (23 July 2026) abandoned plans to build the world’s first commercial octopus farm in Gran Canaria, Spain.

The world's first octopus farm has been scrapped over a "cruel" slaughter method. Plans for the first commercial octopus farm ...

Animals Aotearoa says the Green, Labour and Animal Justice parties supported banning the practice.

A controversial plan to commercially farm octopus for meat has led to a U.S. bill that would ban the practice, along with any imports linked to it. Bipartisan legislation to ban octopus farming was ...

Plans to build the world’s first commercial octopus farm have been abandoned following years of criticism from scientists, ...

A bill has been sponsored in the New Jersey legislature that would preemptively prohibit octopus aquaculture in the state: S.

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SISAL, Mexico – When Mexican biologist Carlos Rosas dips his hand into the water of a large open-topped tank and brings it to the surface, there is a tiny purple baby octopus, no bigger than a tennis ...

When you imagine an octopus's world, you might well see a curious creature in a complex undersea environment. Yet the reality of life for some octopuses is existence within a barren tank, inescapably ...