CUPIMAR initiated activities in 1980, taking advantage of the facilities of old salt works in the San Fernando region, turning them into ponds for the production of prawns and clams, prior the corresponding modifications and investments for such purpose.
At the end of the eighties and beginning of the nineties, it began farming Sea Bream and Sea Bass, that are species that have a higher commercial value, but for which there is little technological knowledge regarding their production in aquaculture systems; therefore, CUPIMAR had to invest in the development of technology for the production of fingerlings and fattening systems that would enable them to maintain profitable production operations and at the same time, to produce the necessary fish volumes to enter into the market.