MADRID (Reuters) - Spurred on by soaring demand for seafood, a Spanish company plans to open the first commercial octopus farm next year but as scientists discover more about the enigmatic animals ...

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 ...

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 ...

A bill that would impose a preemptive ban on octopus farming on Guam has been introduced by Vice Speaker Tony Ada.

Octopuses are capable of sophisticated tasks, from solving puzzles to decorating their dens to remembering people's faces. So when a company in Spain announced that it wanted to commercially farm ...

Octopus could be poised to join salmon and shrimp on the list of farmed seafood—if scientists, corporations, and critics can ...

Plans to develop octopus farming in Europe are under attack from a new report which claims this sea animal’s exceptional characteristics make it uniquely unsuitable for intensive farming. The world is ...

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