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
Commodity	Top producers	Latest price	12 months
Fishmeal Dried, ground fish, mostly small pelagic species such as anchoveta, fed to farmed fish, pigs and poultry.	Share of world fishmeal production: Peru 21%, China 10%, India 6.7%, Rest of world 63%. Peru 21%, China 10%, India 7% (2024)	$2,916/t Any origin, 64-65% protein, CIF Hamburg	+65%
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	$7.81/kg Salmon, farmed Norwegian export price	+26%
Shrimp Farmed and wild-caught crustaceans, frozen at source and shipped as headless shell-on or peeled product.	Share of world shrimp production: China 31%, India 14%, Vietnam 12%, Rest of world 43%. China 31%, India 14%, Vietnam 12% (2024)	$8.6/kg Mexico, US import price, No. 1 shell-on	-25%

Price index since 1960

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Source: World Bank Commodity Price Data (The Pink Sheet), monthly indices, 2010 = 100, published 2026-10-02. CC BY 4.0.

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

Which seafood prices move together?

Within seafood, fishmeal and shrimp are the most closely linked: their monthly price changes correlate at 0.01. Correlation of monthly log price changes (not price levels), computed only over pairs with at least 90 overlapping months, the same method as the site-wide linked-prices report and the correlation calculator — this view is scoped to seafood alone, which the site-wide report's top pairs rarely include.

Green: prices that rise and fall together. Brown: prices that move in opposite directions. Thicker and darker lines are stronger correlations.

Data updated 22 October 2026.