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BioCentinela president Javier Barragan (centre) takes me to visit Isla Puná's only well, one week before a new freshwater system is connected. Reap what you sow
Jason Holland (Seafood International Magazine) - October 01, 2006
BioCentinela was hit hard by the crippling bout of White Spot Syndrome that ravaged farm after farm in 1999. But unlike most of the disease's survivors, BioCentinela didn't return to its former production; instead, as company president Javier Barragan puts it, the business decided to 'seize the moment’ and move into organics. After several years hard slog, BioCentinela has now turned a corner – production is up, revenues have grown and the product itself, Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei), is ...
ORGANIC GAINING: More companies are going organic. A new outlook
Intrafish - May 01, 2006
BioCentinela, located in Guayaquil, Ecuador. BioCentinela is one of only a handful of certified organic shrimp production companies in the world, most located in Ecuador. The shrimp company’s facilities are on Puna Island, in the Riohondo Inlet of Ecuador. Not only do the company’s shrimp farming activities need to be certified organic, so does its reproduction and production of the larvae, and its processing plant. For its shrimp processing operations, BioCentinela contracts with major shrimp packer Expalsa, located in Guayaquil, which also ...