U.S. Senators Whitehouse and Murkowski Introduce Bipartisan Bill Banning Commercial Octopus Farming
U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), founders and co-chairs of the bipartisan Senate Oceans Caucus, today introduced the Opposing the Cultivation and Trade of Octopus Produced through Unethical Strategies (OCTOPUS) Act. The bipartisan legislation would ban commercial octopus farming in the U.S. and prohibit imports of farmed octopus from foreign countries.
“Octopuses are among the most intelligent creatures in the oceans. And they belong at sea, not suffering on a factory farm. My bipartisan bill with Senator Murkowski would preemptively prevent...
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