Three operating assets, one continuous chain.
Each node plays a distinct strategic role — biological autonomy, biomass generation and monetization. Together they form the largest aquaculture platform under unified management in Venezuela.
Laboratorio Capana
The biological root of the program. Controlling the source of postlarvae is what guarantees yield, health status and size uniformity across the whole chain.
Capana is a greenfield hatchery built to produce certified SPF (Specific Pathogen Free) postlarvae at industrial scale. It removes the chronic weakness of Venezuelan shrimp farming — dependence on imported larvae with no traceability — by producing the one raw material that has no quality-equivalent substitute on the local market.
Its location on the Paraguaná Peninsula gives it access to high-salinity ocean water ideal for broodstock maturation, biosecure isolation from other aquaculture centres, and the strongest combined solar-wind resource in the country to power independent generation.
Production Hub
The core of the program, transforming Capana's postlarvae into high-quality biomass and consolidating the largest unified aquaculture platform in the country.
The Hub integrates two strategic assets: AQUALAGO, a farm with 25 years of continuous operation, and the Santa María estate, destined for large-scale expansion. Together they bring more than 2,500 controlled hectares under a single management.
It runs a technified semi-intensive system — pre-grow, aerated grow-out and mechanised harvest — using the genetic lines adapted at Capana. The Lake Maracaibo basin's conditions allow up to four to five production cycles per year, well above the regional norm.
INZUALCA
The point where biomass becomes hard currency. As an operating asset with 15 years of export history, it generates positive cash flow from year one while the other nodes are built.
INZUALCA is a processing plant carrying active FDA, EU, ASC Chain of Custody and SMETA certifications — credentials that open the world's largest import markets. The investment doubles its capacity and adds a dedicated Ready-to-Eat line plus Industry 4.0 technology: machine vision, blockchain traceability and the country's first B2B digital hub.
The strategic leap is the Ready-to-Eat line, where finished products command prices well above commodity whole shrimp for the same raw material — the largest single source of value the integrated model captures.
A platform built on proof, not promises.
See how sustainability and ESG are engineered into every node — and what that means for bankability.