Traded product
Salmon portions, fixed weight
HS code 0304.81
Salmon Guide →The entry product for any market where the cold chain is still being built. Long shelf life is the specification, not a bonus.
Fixed-weight portions are cut to a stated gram weight and either interleaved or individually quick frozen, and they are what makes salmon workable in distribution that cannot turn fresh product over fast enough. Portion control is the commercial point: a restaurant that plates a 140 gram piece knows its food cost to the cent, and a retailer selling a fixed pack knows its margin. Where the market is new, this is almost always the format that works before fresh whole fish does.
Commercial specification
- Product form
- Portion cut to fixed weight, skinless and boneless
- Weights
- 100, 120, 140, 160, 180, 200 g typical
- Freezing
- IQF or interleaved — state which
- Glaze
- Declared as a percentage. Price quoted net of glaze.
- Packing
- 5–10 kg cartons, or retail-ready packs
- Temperature
- −18 °C or colder
- Shelf life
- Typically 18–24 months at −18 °C
- Minimum volume
- One 20 ft container, approx. 20 tonnes
Typical commercial specification. Where the industry genuinely varies, the field says so — and the binding specification is the one written into your contract, not this page.
What goes wrong on this product
Glaze is water, and an undeclared 10 per cent glaze makes an offer look 10 per cent cheaper than it is. Every offer we pass on states the glaze percentage and quotes net of it. An offer that does not is not cheaper — it is incomplete, and we go back for the number rather than forward with the quote.
Landed cost
What it actually costs on your floor — an estimate
We do not publish a fish price, because a number with no volume, Incoterm or validity is not information. What we publish is the arithmetic. Enter the rates you have been quoted — nothing is pre-filled — and the calculator converts the offer to a single comparable basis: net of glaze or ice, one Incoterm, one currency, every line named. The result is an estimate.