World’s First Octopus Farm Left Dead in the Water in Spain

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The first industrial breeding and therefore intensive octopus will not be done. The Spanish multinational Nueva Pescanova decided to abandon the project to build in Gran Canaria the first commercial site in the world, opposed for five years by environmental associations, animalists, the scientific community and citizens. The confirmation arrived [...] The article Blocked the first intensive octopus breeding, provided for a million animals in the…

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After years of protests by animal welfare organizations, plans for the world's first octopus farm have been scrapped. The Spanish company that wanted to build a farm on Gran Canaria has withdrawn its application, according to Spanish media outlets such as Canarias Ahora and El Diario.

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The food company is holding back the initiative in the face of new administrative and regulatory obstacles imposed by the Government of the Canary Islands

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At first it sounded as ambitious as it was controversial, but finally it will never exist, at least in the Port of Las Palmas. Nueva Pescanova has renounced the construction of the world’s first octopus farm, a pioneering project that met in the beginning with doubts about the feasibility of industrializing a laboratory process and ethical questions about the cultivation of captive cephalopods. The multinational fishing company does not attribut…