Commodity Origins

Where does the world's seafood come from?

Seafood covers fishmeal, salmon, shrimp. What moves them together: Wild catch quotas, aquaculture disease, feed costs, El Niño, sanitary rules and bans.

Commodities in this category

Seafood commodities with top producers and latest prices
CommodityTop producersLatest price12 months
Fishmeal
Dried, ground fish, mostly small pelagic species such as anchoveta, fed to farmed fish, pigs and poultry.		No production table yet$2,500/t
Any origin, 64-65% protein, CIF Hamburg		+43%
Salmon
Farmed Atlantic salmon raised in sea pens and flown or shipped fresh; the highest-value farmed fish in world trade.		No production table yet$7.14/kg
Salmon, farmed Norwegian export price		+7%
Shrimp
Farmed and wild-caught crustaceans, frozen at source and shipped as headless shell-on or peeled product.		No production table yet$8.6/kg
Mexico, US import price, No. 1 shell-on		-25%

Price index since 1960

Seafood monthly prices, index 2010=100, Jan 1960 to Aug 2026Line chart of seafood monthly prices in index 2010=100 from Jan 1960 to Aug 2026: Other food index from 16.4 to 118.8, peaking at 136.5.05010015019601965197019751980198519901995200020052010201520202025index 2010=100
Other food index

Source: World Bank Commodity Price Data (The Pink Sheet), monthly indices, 2010 = 100, published 2026-09-02. CC BY 4.0.

Indices are monthly averages and lag the market; informational only, not investment advice.

Data updated 6 September 2026.