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This is on point. I'm Magna Chakrabardi. A few years ago, Spanish seafood company Nueva Pescanova

announced plans to build a commercial

octopus farm on Spain's Grand Canaria Island. The facility would be more than 560,000 square

feet and raise about a million octopuses annually for food. That's according to proposal documents

given to the BBC by the Animal Welfare Organization Eurogroup for animals.

For now, Nueva Pescanova's plan still exist, but they haven't moved forward significantly.

But the news of a potential octopus farm immediately raised concerns from researchers, activists, and many animal welfare groups,

and it sparked

protest campaigns against the effort. Right now, even in the United States, there are state

and federal-level bands in the works. The concerns range from the cephalopods' cannibalistic

potential to their considerable intelligence. After all, octopuses are known problem solvers and escape artists.

They're able to use tools, and they can recognize individuals outside of their own species,

including human faces.

So today on point, we're going to talk about these fascinating creatures and the debate over octopus farming.

But instead of starting in Spain, we're going to start right here in the United States because up until two years ago, there was, in fact, an octopus farm, in quotes, in America.

It was in the Kona region of the Big Island of Hawaii. In practice,

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