Octopus

The company has withdrawn its application for the proposed commercial-scale facility, citing changes to the project’s regulatory and administrative requirements.

Chile has become the first country in Latin America to propose a nationwide ban on octopus farming.

Animal rights groups are urging the government of New Zealand not to put any more funding into a research programme that’s investigating the feasibility of farming octopuses.

The state of California has passed landmark legislation which bans both the farming of octopus and the commercial sale of farmed octopus products within the state.

A new federal bill to prevent the commercial farming of octopuses, as well as the importation and sale of commercially farmed octopuses, has been introduced to the US Senate.

A campaign to halt plans for the development of Spain’s first Octopus farm has renewed its cries over potential impacts to wildlife, the environment and public health.

Poised to become the first law of its kind, a progressive bill to prohibit the farming of octopus in Washington state has been passed by the Senate, and is awaiting approval from the state Governor.

United against the proposed construction of a new octopus farm in Gran Canaria, 76 NGOs, scientific experts, and public figures have called for the Canary Islands government to reject the plans.

An online petition – led by the social mobilisation network Avaaz – has garnered nearly one million signatures opposing the establishment of the first industrial octopus farm by the Spanish company…

New research suggest that noise from human activities like drilling, shipping and mining is harming ocean invertebrates like crabs, molluscs, squid, prawns and bivalves.

A new study from the University of Santiago de Compostela utilises the IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) to identify how international policy…

The Aquatic Animal Alliance has sent a report to the government of the Canary Islands in a bid to deny Nueva Pescanova the opportunity to build the world’s first closed-cycle octopus farm.

Nueva Pescanova’s plans for starting the world’s first commercial octopus farm may have caused an uproar in some quarters of the mainstream media, but aquaculture of the animals could be the best…

Nueva Pescanova plans to invest over €50 million in a farm that’s capable of producing 3,000 tonnes of octopus per year.

A new report by Compassion for World Farming argues “the many reasons why plans to develop octopus farming should be stopped and why companies with octopus in their supply chains must avoid sourcing…

A major bottleneck in octopus aquaculture appears to have been removed, thanks to the development of a pioneering method of incubating the eggs without the need for maternal broodstock.

Pescanova has announced plans to start selling farmed octopus by 2023, having recently succeeded in closing the breeding cycle of the cephalopod in captivity.

With demand rising globally, octopus farming is developing apace – but, mindful of both the animals’ welfare and concerns around sustainability, should we be scaling it up at all?

The fledgling octopus farming sector should be shut down for both ethical and ecological reasons, according to a number of eminent academics.

According to a recent article in Issues in Science and Technology, octopus aquaculture raises significant welfare and environmental concerns