The Good We Do
When it comes to farm-raised Tilapia, Regal Springs wear the white hats in the industry. Our numerous environmental and social programs, which include clinics, education, and reforestation and more, are something we enjoy explaining to visitors. Please contact us if you would like to arrange a visit to one of our sites.
- Education: contributing school supplies for teaching both children and adults. In Honduras, our program Educatodos gives free continuing education to our employees – even into the collegiate level!
- Health: supporting healthcare with the purchase of medicines, clinics, and even ambulances.
- Housing: purchasing new homes and even bringing electricity, when needed, into our communities.
- Clean Water: making clean human drinking water a priority in the communities we do business in.
- Internet Access: bringing the web to rural communities.
- Recreation: building lighted soccer fields for our communities to play this beloved family sport.
Financial stability:
Regal Springs provides over 5,000 direct jobs, and an estimated 20,000 indirect incomes for the livelihood of others. And because we strive to farm sustainably, our renewable fish resource can provide stable employment for years to come.
Ecological Best Practices
- Our Fish for Trees Program reduces deforestation and erosion caused by the slashing and burning of forests for subistance farming. Through this successful program, Regal Springs offers community members the opportunity to start their own aquafarm by providing cages, young stock and mentorship, in return for planting trees back in the forest.
- Regal’s OceanChill™ brand refrigerant reduces our carbon footprint by shipping fresh fillets by boat rather than air.
- 100% of the fish processing waste is recycled into fishmeal and fish oil.
- Regal Springs is a net zero user of fishmeal, more fishmeal and fish oil is produced in the recycling plant than Regal uses.
- Fishnol: Regal Springs-made biodiesel, runs all trucks, machinery, and electricity.
Tilapia fish are often called "St. Peter's fish" due to the fact that they were the fish that Peter caught in Matthew 17:24-27. In this passage, the fish carried a shekel coin in their mouths.
