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All the fish that Albacora commercialises is caught by its own fleet, made up of modern, competitive tuna fishing ships. Albacora supplies fish both to the transforming companies of the group and independent plants and businesses.

 

The tuna freezer ships of Albacora Group are considered to be the most competitive in the world. Their design provides them with the ideal characteristics for pursuing responsible activities, respectful of all the International Agreements on the protection of species. The Group's commitment to the environment also extends to its state-of-the-art transformation plants which are pioneers in the obtaining of environmental and good practice certificates.

 

Albacora collaborates with all public and private entities of a scientific nature in the conservation of the species it captures. The company is interested more than anyone else in conserving resources and supports the control and regulation of fishing grounds.

 

Since its foundation, Albacora Group has been especially sensitive to sustainability policies relating to fishing resources. Proof of this is the fact that for more than 15 years, representatives of the company have attended international forums held on this subject with the aim of securing the agreement of Regional Fishing Organisations (RFOs), European Union and sector employers in order to apply measures worldwide to protect this resource. (RFOs), and in order to apply measures worldwide to protect this resource.

 

 

Albacora catches and commercialises the main species of tuna which are caught with gillnets. With this fishing method the By-catch or accidental fishing of other species Represent scarcely 0.5 percent, less than other fishing methods.

 

Albacora supplies its captures classified according to species anywhere in the world where there is a need, review highest levels of diligence and with a product of guaranteed quality.

 

 

Campos frozen tuna

The Albacora Group is made up of a number of trading companies whose basic aim is to capture, transport, store, distribute, market and package tuna fish. The Group came into being in 1974 with the formation of the parent company Albacora S.A., made up of large business groups with different levels of trading experience that integrate perfectly in to achieve its established objectives.

 

In 1957, the Uria family began the family fishing tradition when the Galema arrived at Dakar together with another three 3 boats from Bermeo. During the next decade, they arrived in Freetown and the first tuna fishing ships were built. In this way, in 1974, the company Albacora was set up. Over the following decades, the tuna ships were improved to increase their capacity and range.

 

During the 80s, in the Indian Ocean, the Seychelles fishing grounds were consolidated and the Pacific Ocean followed in the 90s. Albacora was already fishing in the Atlantic and became the largest tuna fishing group in Europe, with the most technologically modern fleet, fishing in three oceans.

 

 

In 1991, the Group took the decisive step of expanding its activities from the extraction and commercialisation of tuna fish to include its transformation and marketing through the purchase of the canning company Salica Industria Alimentaria, S.A. created from the merger of the family companies Campos and Astorquiza, in Bermeo. Salica is specialised in quality canned tuna fish designed for mass consumption and catering markets. Its market is mainly the Spanish market with exports to European countries such as Italy. During the following years, with the aid and guarantee of the Albacora Group, Salica consolidated its project in Spain and in other European countries.

 

The Group detected a virtually total dominance of hake on the Spanish frozen fish products market and created the following company Salica Alimentos Congelados S.A, in order to develop and offer the broadest range of tuna-based frozen products both for the end consumer and for the Horeca channel. Salica is a pioneer in Spain, offering both raw and pre-cooked frozen tuna products.

 

All the fish that Albacora commercialises is caught by its own fleet

 

In 2002, the Albacora Group, already one of the largest tuna specialists in the world, created the Salica del Ecuador S.A. complex in Posorja, a fishing and transformation logistics base that today serves the American market, making the Albacora Group a global company, the only one that fishes in every ocean and supplies tuna to worldwide consumer markets.

 

 

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