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| Description of the company Perlas del Cortez, was founded in October 1999, with the objective of beginning a commercial cultivation of Concha Nacar and Mother Pearl Oyster in The Bay of La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico. A group of specialist professionals in the cultivation of bivalve mollusks, all of them marine biologists, constitute the company, their experience in the experimental cultivation of other species like the oyster, the lion hand scallop , the catarina scallop and pearl oysters, motivated them to begin this commercial adventure. Important antecedents made possible Perlas del Cortez, mainly the researches of three Mexican institutions, The Center of Biological Investigations of the Northwest (CIBNOR), the Technological Institute of Monterrey where they started the experimental works on the cultivation of pearl oysters, and began the first Mexican company that cultures these species and finally the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California Sur, where important investigation works were also developed and are the support of this company. All the research efforts added during more than 15 years, as well as the Government's of Baja California Sur, Mexico resolved support, made possible the beginning of activities of Perlas del Cortez. At the moment the company produces half pearls or mabés and shortly it will begin the harvest of free pearls. All the pieces have a fundamental characteristic, the quality of the incomparable mother pearl that has distinguished the native pearls from the Gulf of California. The Aquaculturists from Perlas del Cortez make their best effort so the final product has the best quality, providing the necessary cares in order that, after implanting the animals, they let the nature creates its own miracle, the pearls."
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