Trout fish farm by La Orotava Tenerife.

They say that the Aguamansa trout fish farm is the only one for sweet water fish in the total autonomous zone of the Canary Islands.

About the trout farm Aguamansa

• Name of farm for trouts: Tenerife Centro Cinegetico y
  Piscifactoria Cinegetica Granjas Aguamansa
• Aguamansa meaning: Plenty water
• Owners: Cabildo, i.e.Tenerife government
• Fish farmed: trout Arcoiris (Trucha Arcoiris)
• Tenerife trout farm location: S/N 38310 Agua Mansa
  Carretera La Orotava to Canadas del Teide at km 15.
  (no farm road number)
• Farm project visiting hours: Every day: 10 a.m.-to 15 p.m.
• Trout sale: Call to verify at Tel: 0034 922 321736
• General fish sale at farm Aguamsa from 10a.m.-14.p.m.
• Free parking: outside the farm by the road
• Trout fish restaurant: restaurant Restaurante Aguamansa
  which is not within the farm for trouts

Beautiful trees fence off this fish farm where water abounds.

White Dalias and perfumed roses greet you by the entrance.

Then thousands of agile creatures called fish make you wonder how they can live in such crowded confinement.

Notice many different basins for different size trout at the farm for growing and fattening fish at Aguamansa.

Trouts are predetors and the young ones must be always separated from grown ones.

A constantly running waterfall feeds the trout basins. The falls originate from a natural fountain supply off the Aguamansa Caldera which is further up from the fish farm. Also, discover some most delicate tiny plants which grow around this waterfall landscaping Aguamansa whose surroundings are not only perfect for trout fish farming.

Trout farming is not easy

Long time ago, we had a Swaziland business. Our partner had big land near the Lobombo Mozambique mountains with a huge waterfall. He was most excited about the occasional gold dust which the falling waters washed into a river. However, we gave much more value to the gushing free waters. We looked into the possibility of starting a trout farm. In the end we didn't go ahead with it. We didn't want to risk farming which needed the utmost dedication, dilligence and discipline to make it successful. Our partner didn't have such qualities and we couldn't be around all the time, as we lived 8 hours away in Johannesburg. So much to a highly scientific way of growing fish, such as trouts.
Trouts need fresh moving water at all times and wouldn't survive under the same conditions as Koi Carps or Goldfish, for example. Both Koi and Goldfish will be happy in relatively stagnating ponds, contrary to trouts. Meantime, it doesn't matter that many trout-fish are together in a larger basin.

Most trout pools at this fish farm are quite narrow and square, while the left hand basins below the waterfall are bigger and wider.

Smaller trouts are kept in small basins, as depicted beside.

The interesting history of the Aguamansa farm for trouts

Trout farming was introduced at the Aguamansa farm after a reforestation project was started in 1950. From then onwards, about 40 species of cornifers were grown at this former Tenerife tree nursery by sort of an environmental working group. This department of the Tenerife government wanted to rejuvenate its forests by growing trees on the land which became a farm for fish later.

Also, the production of rustic timber furniture for national picknick spots was introduced at some stage after 1950. Tree planting was the fish farm's main project 6 decades ago.

Mind that two well known large recreational picknick-spots at Caldera Aguamansa are just up the road from the farmsteadt.

Trout farms are not for sports fishing

You are not allowed to catch trouts at the Aguamansa farm, while Tenerife fishing is leaving you so many other options, some of which entice big challenges. Sometimes, they are so thrilling that they feel like top adventure sports of the big outdoors on the island.


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Go to Restaurante Aguamansa to eat fresh trout

You may know that a farmstead is called a finca in Tenerife. However, the Cabildo, i.e.Tenerife government named its project differently as you may have noticed earlier on. It's called fish factory Psicifactoria in Spanish. Indeed, that classifies it better than the category Fincas.

Anyway, return to fincas in tenerife.

Want to see a science fiction version of Aguamansa fish farming?

My photos of the Agua Mansa farm for fish are not at all pretty but, the whole farm is not a picture of art.

At least, my pictures give you the truth.

Or do you want to see an abstract three dimensional fantasy of it, where neither landscapes around it nor, the shape nor color nor size, in fact absolutely nothing portrays reality but, only distorts and misleads. Is such art correct to be number one for a keyword search result? Art is fine when you know that you are dealing with it. This should be made clear for the normal surfer. What about somebody overseas who wants to come to Tenerife to farm trouts? Is it right that he wastes money caused by misleading pictures who are number one and more in search results? I wish search engines wouldn't support such 'getting out of hand information' just because they had many recommendations. Would you call this spam? Just wondering...

So please google 'fish farm Tenerife' and you shall see to help spread the truth. Give me your valuable comment...





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