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Sept 30 - 2024
EN North America
Why did Newsom sign an octopus farming ban in California? Here's why
NBC Los Angeles
Although octopuses may not be part of an average Californian’s meal plans, supporters of the new law said octopus farming is inhumane.
By Helen Jeong
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Sept 29 - 2024
EN North America
Newsom signs bill to ban octopus farming in California
Los Angeles Times
The new law makes it illegal to raise and breed octopuses in state waters or in aquaculture tanks based on land within the state. It also prevents business owners and operators from knowingly participating in the sale of an octopus — regardless of its provenance — that has been raised to be eaten by people. By Susanne Rust
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Oct 25 - 2024
EN North America
California becomes second US state to ban octopus farming
Seafood Source
California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a bill banning octopus farming into law, making it the second U.S. state after Washington to prohibit the practice. The Oppose Cruelty to Octopuses (OCTO) Act prohibits octopus farming operations throughout the state. It also bans the sale of farmed octopuses in California. The bill received unanimous approval from the state senate and overwhelming support in the state assembly.
By Nathan Strout
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Oct 16 - 2024
EN Global
Aquaculture could harm animal welfare or protect it, depending on what species the farms raise
The Conversation
The rapid growth in aquaculture means that billions of individual aquatic animals are now being farmed without basic information that could help ensure even minimal welfare standards. Our newly published study shows that these welfare risks are not uniform: Aquaculture is likely to have severe effects on welfare for some species, but negligible impacts on others.
By Becca Franks, Chiawen Chiang
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Oct 16 - 2024
EN Global
Yale Law School
A new study by Laurie Sellars, postgraduate fellow of the Law, Ethics & Animals Program at Yale Law School, and Becca Franks, an assistant professor of environmental studies at New York University, investigates how marine aquaculture or ‘mariculture’ — the cultivation of aquatic organisms in the ocean — generates a suite of risks: environmental degradation, harms to wildlife communities and individuals, welfare harms for captive animals, and shifts in how humans perceive the nonhuman world. The article describes these risks collectively as 'dewilding,' defined as the process of privileging anthropocentric interests, perspectives, sovereignty, and agency at the expense of other interests and considerations The study, 'How Mariculture Expansion is Dewilding the Ocean and its Inhabitants,' was published in the journal Science Advances on Oct. 16, 2024. Sellars and Franks discuss their research.
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