The Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development, Climate Emergency and Ecological Transition has authorised the company Piscifactorías Albadalejo SL to expand its maritime farms in the waters of Pilar de la Horadada.
The agreement will expand the current 20 cages and 300,000 square metres that the maritime facility already has, to an increase to 60 enclosures and 900,000 square metres.
The company belongs to the Piscialba family group, with headquarters in the bordering Murcian municipality of San Pedro del Pinatar. It operates in waters of both municipalities. According to the latest data available, in 2017 it had a turnover of just over seven million euro, 2.5 million more than in 2016.
In April 2016, the company Piscifactorías Albadalejo SL installed a group of ten cages, each 25 metres in diameter. A year later, it carried out an extension with the same characteristics as the previous one. Distributed in two blocks, they formed a rectangle of 600 m by 500 m of occupation of the maritime public domain. The project presented and approved involves the installation of four blocks with ten cages each, which implies having a total area of one kilometre by 900 metres.
These facilities are located in front of Punta de la Horadada and where the depth is 39 meters. With these expanded facilities, the authorised production of sea bream and sea bass would go from one thousand to three thousand tons a year.
