Caviar Pirinea, Spain’s main producer of rainbow trout, has acquired the Portuguese company Viveiros de Coura, Lda, the country’s leading trout farm. The operation is part of the group’s international expansion plan and consolidates its presence in the Iberian aquaculture market.
According to the company, the Portuguese facility has a production potential of 600 tonnes per year of large-size trout, a volume that covers more than 80% of the Portuguese market for this product. With this acquisition, Caviar Pirinea adds its Portuguese assets to the three fish farms it already operates in Galicia and the four located in the Pyrenees region of Navarra, Aragón and Catalonia, strengthening a production network that improves its efficiency and supply capacity across both the Spanish and wider European markets.
The acquisition also coincides with the 12th anniversary of Caviar Pirinea, a milestone that the company celebrates “by consolidating its position in the market.”
An Iberian benchmark in freshwater aquaculture
Founded in 2013 by agronomists Arnault Chaperon and Laurent Vilaeys-Sakalian, Caviar Pirinea is based in Barbastro (Huesca, Spain) and has become the largest national producer of caviar, sturgeon and large trout. The company specialised in farming rainbow trout and sturgeon, producing fresh fish, roe, and caviar marketed under the Per Sé brand.
Its main facilities are located “at the foothills of the Pyrenees,” an environmental with pure, oxygen-rich waters that, according to the company, guarantees product quality.
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