Porto-Muiños, a family-owned aquaculture producer in Galicia with 25 years of experience in the industry, used EU support to develop a new aquaculture facility, where they use their business’ staple algae products to cultivate sea urchin for restocking local waters.

The sea urchin is an economically and culturally significant species in Galicia. Urchin stocks have declined drastically in recent decades, struggling to recover after a series of tanker spills devastated the local marine ecosystem.

The Algafrés project of the Porto-Muiños family company shows how producers in the seafood and aquaculture sector can work towards recovering stocks damaged by environmental disasters in a way that is both ecologically and economically beneficial.

This project has been supported by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund.