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The inside story of the effort to build the world’s first octopus farm—animal rights activists be damned

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An exclusive report on how one band of entrepreneurs and scientists is working to establish the first commercial octopus farm—and set a new bar for humane aquaculture along the way. Balancing on a railroad-tie-size beam of a platform floating in Spain’s Vigo Bay, Ricardo Tur crouches and points below. Dangling several feet underwater is a pen the size of a garden shed, home to 80 octopuses.