See below related information from the web:History:Juan Jesús Esteves, captain of a lute that carried salted sardines from Ayamonte and Isla Cristina (Huelva) to the ports of Alicante and Valencia, obtained a concession for a sardine salt factory in the port of Ayamonte against 1888. He would marry a Frenchwoman from Cerdaña, Angustias Portanet, with whom he would have three children: Juan, Pedro and José Jesús Portanet. Since 1900, the business has operated under the corporate name "Jesús Hermanos, S.R.C.", marketing salted and pressed sardines under the La Flor de Jesús brand.---------------------Provincia: PontevedraMunicipio: RedondelaParroquia: San Fausto de ChapelaLugar: CapillaUbicación: Caleta do MuíñoDirección: r/ José Fernández López, s/n. 36320 Chapela-Redondela (Pontevedra)Coordinación. Geográfica - Latitud: 42º 16' 28'' NCoordenadas geográficas - Longitud: 8º 40' 12'' WCoordenadas UTM: Datum Europeo 1950 (ED 50): H 29 // X 527.328,80 m / Y 4.680.541,59 mClasificación: Pesca, procesamiento y conservación del pescado.CNAE: 03.11 Pesca marítima. 10.21 Procesamiento de pescados, crustáceos y moluscos.Tipo: Salazón y secado de bacalaoProvincia: VigoMarco geográfico: Margen izquierda de la Ría de Vigo, al norte de la desembocadura del arroyo FondónÁmbito: UrbanoAcceso: Desde Vigo saldremos por la avenida Sanjurjo Badía continuando por la avenida Galicia y la avenida Vigo (carretera PO-323) en dirección Chapela. Giraremos a la izquierda por la calle José Fernández López, pasando bajo las vías del tren para salir por la misma entrada que las instalaciones que fue Copiba y hoy ocupan Pescanova.
In search of new fishing grounds, José Jesús Portanet, associated with Manuel Vázquez Barroso, also from Ayamont, will arrive in 1903 at the Sardinian port of Ares (A Coruña). Both of them would build a salt factory on the beach of A Bestarruza, in the neighboring municipality of Mugardos (A Coruña), which would market the preserves under the "La Andaluza" brand.
In 1910 José Jesús Portanet, associated with the industrialist of Italian origin José Masoni González, also from Ayamonte, will set up a sardine and anchovy salt factory in the Areal de Vigo, next to the Curbera factory. In 1913, José would decide to return to Ayamonte, and it would be his brother Pedro who would take over the factory in Vigo. His son, Rafael Jesús-Portanet Suárez, will remain in charge of the business since 1937.
Rafael and his brother Fernando would participate against 1940 in the establishment of the company "Compañía de Pesca e Industrias del Bacalao S. A." (COPIBA), promoted by Federico Heredia from Barcelona, one of the main Spanish importers of cod. The cod would form with PYSBE and PEBSA part of the so-called "national cod companies", with which the Franco regime tried to reduce the burdensome imports of the product.
The new company would build in Chapela, a factory with drying tunnels, washing rooms and refrigerators for the processing of cod. A cod fleet of four trawlers (of the ten "bulls" that were initially planned) that would begin work at the end of the 1940s, would complete the business assets.
The decline of Terranova's fishing grounds led to the abandonment of fishing activity at the beginning of the 1960s, modernizing and expanding the land facilities (especially the cold rooms) to meet from 1964 the growing needs of frozen storage of the Pescanova company, for which it would be very then absorbed (September 22, 1966).-----------------------------
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