Facilities - Omarsa

Hatcheries
Shrimp farms
Processing Plants

Hatcheries

Omarsa’s hatcheries work with a selective breeding program based on growth and resistance of the breeding stock. The breeders are selected from our own shrimp farms in a closed cycle. There are no wild larvae allowed in the cycle.

There are two phases in this process: maturation (the actual breeding of the shrimp) and larviculture (nursery of the shrimp).

There is no genetic manipulation involved in this process. There is a 100 % free of Eyestalk ablation (Regulation 834/EU/2007, Organic Standards)

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Our hatcheries, Tabasca, Mar Bravo and Punta Carnero meet requirements of recognized private international certifications.

Shrimp farms

Omarsa has five shrimp farms strategically located in areas which are known to be of high production yields. We have more than 5,700 hectares of farmed shrimp, located in estuarine zones (natural shrimp environment) during the juvenile and pre-adults (commercial sizes). Since all these sectors are under sea water influence, tides ensure renovation of water avoiding stagnated waters.

The production systems have been carefully selected in order to reduce the impact on the environment, having implemented certified systems in all our farms and organic standards in Chongon.

All production sites are managed under a “zero” antibiotic philosophy, promoting the use of probiotics and natural fertilizers.

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All shrimp farms have analysis of the quality of water and health monitoring.

Processing Plant

Omarsa is a dynamic company which anticipates and adapts to the demands of the markets, customers and trends.

We constantly improve our facilities and invest in our people in order to meet the demands of new products and update our technologies for the optimization of our processes.

The investment includes state-of-the-art freezing equipment that shortens freezing times allowing us to offer high quality products faster.

We have incorporated a new processing plant located in Las Brisas, Duran.

The new plant process exclusively head-on shrimp with the most automatic technology.

Current total freezing capacity: 71 million pounds a month

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Quality control

At Omarsa we ensure the highest standards of quality, food safety, legality and traceability through the following controls:

Raw material: Control upon reception organoleptic, chemicals, and quality.
Allergens: sulfite analysis with state of the art technology (Kjendahl Monier Williams).
Controls during process: metrological and quality analysis.
Monitoring Critical Control Points identified in our different HACCP plans.
In-house Microbiological Lab for product, surface, water and ice analysis.
Chemical analysis of water.
Screening of our shrimp suppliers for antibiotics and environmental pollutants.
Control and inspections of product along the process in order to ensure compliance with customer specifications, legal requirements and traceability integrity.