The on-farm science group BOFIN is starting a three-year £2.5 million project funded through Defra’s Farming Innovation Programme. It'll be growing the first commercial trial of precision-bred oilseed ...

Washington has already banned octopus farming. The bill would further crack down on the practice by outlawing the sale, ...

Californians are prohibited from farming octopuses to eat following a bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday. AB 3162 bans the aquaculture of any species of octopus for the purpose of being eaten ...

New Jersey lawmakers are considering banning octopus farming. Supporters say it is cruel to octopuses and breeds germs that threaten public health, while critics in the seafood industry complain it ...

Proponents of octopus farming claim it can reduce fishing pressure on wild octopus populations by supplying the seafood industry, and even suggest that these efforts could contribute to restocking ...

At a humming factory in the Spanish town of O Carballino, workers sling dozens of limp octopuses into a metal cauldron, wincing as strings of slime splatter their aprons. Nearby, others slice ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom Monday signed a bill into law to ban the farming of octopuses and farmed octopus sales. Under AB 3162, also known as the California Oppose Cruelty to Octopuses (OCTO) Act, authored ...

On the Spanish island of Gran Canaria, a company called Nueva Pescanova has quietly built the world’s first commercial octopus farm—a facility designed to breed and slaughter 3,000 metric tons of ...