Villa Pesquera

Villa Pesquera is a sea-front fishing village in barrio Playa, in the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico.

[1] Formerly an ad hoc group of fishermen, Villa Pesquera was re-organized and inaugurated in 1992 under the administration of Ponce Mayor Rafael Cordero Santiago.

In July 2013 it was made public that the Ponce Municipal Government was interested in passing control of the village to a private commercial operator.

As a result, security vessels dock and undock in the Puerto Viejo sector of barrio Playa.

The APPP identified the principals of the proposed new operational cooperative as members of the same political New Progressive Party as the municipal government's administration.