Founded in 1993, the company specializes in fresh trout, selling whole fish, butterflied fish and fillets to retail and food service customers primarily in the United States, with Columbia representing about 10 per cent of total sales.
Located in Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia, the facility processed 360 tonnes of trout last year and is expected to process 800 tonnes of fish by 2014. Truchas Belmira operates six trout farms near Medellín.
Truchas Belmira S.A.S. is the world’s first rainbow trout processing plant to earn Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification, the Global Aquaculture Alliance has announced in march 2014.