You are now at the dock, the first step taken into the fascinating world of pearl culture. From here, you can watch the ceaseless activities revolving around pearl culture: spat collection, cleaning of the oysters, placing them into their cages and even harvests. Our Yaqui workforce -once more an integral part of pearl production- will take care of the labor intensive force involve in pearl aquaculture. Our land based facilities include a a "palapa", where the most intense labor is takes place, and a "Pearl Lab" for the most challenging procedures, such as the seeding operation and X-ray inspections.

From here you can also get an excellent view of our suspended culture farm: lines of black floats which comprise the "long-lines" from which we "hang" the aquaculture cages in which the pearl oysters grow. Presently we are culturing some 230,000 native pearl oysters within our aquaculture facilities. This is -without a doubt- the largest single concentration of native pearl oysters on this side of the Pacific Ocean. A pearl farm is not only a way to obtain pearls, it can also act as a "breeding station" helping to replenish the Gulf of California with these -once very abundant- valuable species. At our farm we ONLY employ our indigenous pearl oysters species: the "Rainbow-Lipped Pearl Oyster" (Pteria sterna) and the "Black-Lipped Pearl Oyster" (Pinctada mazatlanica). Of these two, our commercial production is solely comprised of "Rainbow Lipped Oysters".

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