Fresh, Chilled & Frozen Atlantic Salmon

Farmed Atlantic salmon HOG by weight class, fillets by trim, frozen HOG and portions

Farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) is two trades under one name. The fresh trade sells head-on gutted (HOG) fish on ice by weight class - 1-2, 2-3, 3-4, 4-5, 5-6 and 6 kg-up - under HS 0302.14, graded Superior, Ordinary or Production on appearance, and fresh fillets under HS 0304.41 by trim: Trim A has the backbone and belly bones off, each letter removes more, and Trim E is skinless, pin-bone-out and fully trimmed. Chilled fish is packed in insulated boxes with ice and moves by refrigerated truck across Europe or by air freight to Asia, the Gulf and North America, and its shelf life is counted in days from harvest, so the price is fixed for a harvest week and the truck or air booking is made against it. The frozen trade takes whole HOG under HS 0303.13 and fillets and portions under HS 0304.81, frozen and shipped in reefer containers at -18°C or colder, and suits buyers who cannot land a truck or an aircraft within the fresh window. UN Comtrade 2024 export declarations show the scale: under HS 0302.14 Norway exported 964k MT for USD 8.04 bn (USD 8.34/kg), Chile 148k MT (USD 7.69/kg), the UK 101.5k MT (USD 10.56/kg), Canada 70.2k MT, Iceland 38.1k MT and Australia 20.3k MT, with Sweden and Denmark carrying large transit volumes; under HS 0304.41 Norway 142.5k MT (USD 13.84/kg) and Chile 147.0k MT (USD 11.59/kg); under HS 0304.81 Chile 124.3k MT (USD 11.42/kg) and Norway 71.6k MT (USD 14.04/kg); and under HS 0303.13 Chile 66.8k MT and Norway 26.5k MT. The Faroe Islands did not report 2024 figures to Comtrade.

The buyer is a smokehouse, a fillet and portion processor, a sushi and foodservice distributor, a retail chain or an importer in the European Union, the UK, the US, Japan, China, Southeast Asia or the Gulf, and it specifies the presentation, weight class or trim, quality grade, harvest date and the certifications its customers ask for. CBIL is a commodity brokerage company and brokers fresh, chilled and frozen farmed Atlantic salmon from Norwegian, Chilean, Scottish, Faroese, Icelandic, Canadian and Tasmanian farms, harvesting plants, processors and exporters against the competent-authority health certificate for the destination, ASC or GlobalG.A.P. certification where the buyer or its market requires it, a certificate of origin, and on frozen lots a surveyor's check of core temperature, glaze and net weight at stuffing. Farmed coho salmon and rainbow trout from lawful origins can be worked on request under their own HS lines. Every lot is species-declared and certifiable as halal by the destination's accepted certifier; the seafood book is fish and shrimp only, with no crab, lobster, oysters, other shellfish or molluscs. Fresh fish moves on FCA, CPT, CIP or DAP terms by air or truck, frozen fish on FOB, CFR and CIF in reefer containers, with freight quoted through the airlines, hauliers, lines and forwarders; LaycanDesk, our chartering desk, does not come into it. Send the presentation, weight class or trim, fresh or frozen, weekly volume and destination airport or port and we will work an origin and a price to it.

Excluded origins are not offered, including product re-exported, blended or re-processed through a third country. Every lot moves with a certificate of origin naming the producing plant, mine or grower country, and nothing is quoted before the seller and loading point are known.