Activism & Animals Active Updated Jul 28, 2026
The octopus farming ban push
Spain's Nueva Pescanova scrapped its plan for the world's first commercial octopus farm after a global backlash, sparing octopuses bound for barren tanks and an estimated 2.1 billion wild-caught fish a year that would have fed them. Campaign groups now want the win locked in permanently across Europe before another company tries the same thing. This storyline tracks whether an EU-wide ban on octopus farming follows, and whether any company attempts a similar commercial octopus farm elsewhere.
The story so far
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Jul 28, 2026 Latest
Viva! organized 42,000 additional emails to Gran Canaria port officials alongside the more than 200,000 PETA-supporter emails that helped scrap Nueva Pescanova's octopus farm plan.
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Jul 25, 2026
Spain's Nueva Pescanova scrapped its plan for the world's first commercial octopus farm after a global backlash that included more than 200,000 emails PETA supporters sent to Gran Canaria officials. Eurogroup for Animals said it will now push for an EU-wide ban on octopus farming so no similar project can take hold elsewhere in Europe.
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