Seafood price database
The seafood price index is essential for tracking one of the world’s most diverse and globally traded food commodities. Expana delivers trusted, IOSCO-assured seafood price benchmarks, covering both widely traded items such as salmon and groundfish, and niche products like crawfish or frog legs. With comprehensive market insights and advanced forecasting capabilities, our platform empowers businesses to manage risk, anticipate market fluctuations, and make informed procurement decisions.
Expana – the IOSCO assured global leader in seafood prices and global market intelligence
Through a rigorous, IOSCO-assured price discovery process, Expana’s seafood market assessments deliver unmatched transparency to those navigating price volatility. We were the first to provide price benchmarks for the seafood industry, trusted by global market participants to aid commercial decisions and monitor seafood market prices over time.
Our proprietary seafood price coverage includes benchmark quotations for high-volume commodities such as shrimp, salmon, cod, haddock, and lobster, as well as niche products like crawfish and frog legs, facilitating accurate negotiations in markets both large and small.
Expana provides extensive insights into key sourcing regions, including Alaska, Russia, Norway, Iceland, Chile, and Canada. Our customers gain actionable intelligence on factors shaping seafood pricing, such as harvest quotas, biological cycles, disease outbreaks, trade policies, freight costs, and currency fluctuations.
Our seafood market intelligence includes:
- industry-leading proprietary benchmarks for nearly 3,000 seafood products, from farmed Atlantic salmon fillets to wild-caught Alaskan pollock blocks
- in-depth market reports capturing pricing trends, seasonal fluctuations, and market sentiment
- detailed analysis of supply-demand fundamentals, import-export dynamics, and processing trends
- comprehensive historical pricing data, facilitating robust market forecasting and seasonal comparisons
- real-time news and alerts covering disease events, trade policy shifts, and logistical disruptions
- exclusive analyses of pivotal trade situations, quotas, and global processing flows affecting seafood costs
Expana allows you to build custom cost models for seafood products – from simple retail items like breaded fish sticks or smoked salmon portions to complex manufactured goods such as battered cod for fish & chips, or salmon burgers – helping you track COGS over time and identify cost-saving opportunities.
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Our seafood prices forecasting methodology
Expana’s seafood price forecasts are grounded in a comprehensive, multi-layered approach that captures the complexity of global seafood markets. Our methodology combines macro-economic, fundamental, and technical analysis to deliver reliable projections and support confident decision-making.
- Macro-economic analysis examines global economic indicators – such as GDP trends, inflation, consumer spending, and trade flows – that impact seafood demand, processing costs, and logistics. Currency fluctuations are especially critical in this globally traded sector.
- Technical analysis uses indicators such as moving averages, MACD, and RSI to anticipate price trends and market turning points, supporting short- and medium-term planning.
- Fundamental analysis focuses on species-specific dynamics like harvest quotas, biological cycles, disease outbreaks, and environmental events affecting availability. It also accounts for seasonal consumption patterns, processing flows, and evolving trade policies.
By integrating these analytical layers, Expana provides accurate and actionable seafood price forecasts – empowering businesses to manage volatility, optimize sourcing strategies, and plan for future shifts in global supply and demand.
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Use cases
Efficiency
Save time and improve productivity with our actionable insights.
Cost control
Navigate market challenges and maximize long-term success.
Profitability
Utilize our data, market fundamentals, and forecasting expertise to gain a financial edge.
Risk mitigation
Manage risks proactively and minimize your exposure to price fluctuations.
Essential intelligence for industry professionals
Expana delivers essential intelligence to industry professionals across the seafood supply chain, ensuring business leaders stay informed about the latest prices and industry trends, enabling them to effectively navigate disruptions, manage prices, and deliver value to their customers.
Seafood Market FAQs
Expana provides benchmark pricing for a wide range of seafood, including fresh and frozen salmon fillets, whole fish, groundfish in blocks or fillets, and niche species like perch, flounder, or frog legs.
Seafood prices are influenced by:
- harvest quotas
- biological cycles
- disease outbreaks
- currency fluctuations
- trade policies
- freight costs
For example, groundfish prices are impacted by quota management and Chinese processing flows, while salmon prices are sensitive to biological conditions and exchange rates.
Yes. Expana’s data supports custom cost modeling for products such as fish sticks, battered cod, smoked salmon, poke kits, or salmon burgers – accounting for raw materials, processing inputs, and logistics.
Much of the groundfish imported into the U.S. is processed in China. Any tariffs, trade restrictions, or logistical disruptions significantly impact costs and delivery times for U.S. buyers.
The wild salmon season depends heavily on harvest conditions in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. Sockeye and king salmon are key premium categories, and availability can fluctuate based on run strength, weather, and ocean conditions.
Despite price swings, demand in the U.S. remains resilient across retail and foodservice. Consumers tend to shift between species or formats (fresh vs. frozen) based on price and availability.
Chilean farmed Atlantic salmon dominates U.S. fresh fillet imports. Prices fluctuate based on harvest volumes, freight costs, and currency shifts, particularly the Chilean peso.