Octopus Farming in the U.S. Doesn't Exist, and a New Bill Wants to Keep It That Way

Octopus Farming in the U.S. Doesn't Exist, and a New Bill Wants to Keep It That Way

“A lot of people say an octopus is like an alien. But the strange thing is, as you get closer to them, you realize that we’re very similar in a lot of ways,” filmmaker Craig Foster said in the opening of the Oscar-winning 2020 documentary My Octopus Teacher. The film, which explored the unlikely friendship between Foster and a common octopus in the kelp-draped waters off South Africa, sparked public interest with cephalopods — not just for their…