Here you will get to know most of the operations performed in a Pearl Farm, so grab your favorite sandals, put on your sunglasses and prepare to immerse yourself inside Mexico's Premiere Pearl Farm.
This pearl farm is currently owned by a group of Mexican Investors, including the three original founders of the original research project. The farm's installations are still based at the Guaymas Campus of the I.T.E.S.M. (popularly known as the "Tec de Monterrey").
This Campus has been around since 1968, specializing in courses related to Aquaculture, Marine Biology, Food Processing and Conservation Management. Many important advances in aquaculture took place here since then, applied research has been an important part of this Institute.
The Pearl Farm resides inside one of Guaymas' most beautiful bays: Bacochibampo Bay (meaning "Bay of Sea-Snakes" in the Yaqui Indian language).
The pearl farm itself evolved -back in 1991- as a spin-off from a Research Project ("Aquaculture of Native Bivalve Species") that had begun back in 1985. Pearl Farm Tours started -quite accidentally- back in 1997, but since then we have received thousands of visitors from all over the World.
The project grew both in size and importance, until in 1996 it was finally declared as a high-priority developmental project under the name of "ITESM/Perlas de Guaymas", then renamed as "Perlas del Mar de Cortés S.A. de C.V.", when it reached its commercial period and now it has finally changed hands to become the property of "Perlas Únicas S.A. de C.V."
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Last Updated 05/2007
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