What is the price of fish per kilogram/pound in Uruguay today?
The retail price range for Uruguay fish is between US$ 2.24 and US$ 9.26 per kilogram or between US$ 1.02 and US$ 4.20 per pound(lb). Click here to see today's exact prices of fish in Uruguay
The retail price range in Unidad Previsional for fish is between UYI 87.10 and UYI 359.77 per kilogram or between UYI 39.50 and UYI 163.16 per pound(lb) in Montevideo and Salto.
Wholesale prices
In 2025, the approximate wholesale price range for Uruguay fish is between US$ 1.57 and US$ 6.48 per kilogram or between US$ 0.71 and US$ 2.94 per pound(lb).
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Uruguay fish - Production, Exports, Imports, Seasons and HS Codes
In 2019 Uruguay shipped 42,901 tonnes of fish. For 2019 alone, the interest in Uruguay fish (fish category) has escalated, with a change of 8.128 pc compared to the year 2018. Between 2017 and 2019, fish's exports went up by 23.3 percent earning the country US$66.14m for the year 2019. Uruguay's fish exports are classified as:
- Fresh or chilled freshwater and saltwater fish (excluding salmonidae, flat fish, tunas, skipjack or stripe-bellied bonito, herrings, cod, sardines, sardinella, brisling or sprats, haddock, coalfish, mackerel, sharks, eels, swordfish and toothfish) (HS code 030269)
- Fresh or chilled fish, n.e.s. (HS code 030289)
- Frozen freshwater and saltwater fish (excluding salmonidae, flat fish, tunas, skipjack or stripe-bellied bonito, herrings, cod, swordfish, toothfish, sardines, sardinella, brisling or sprats, haddock, coalfish, mackerel, dogfish and other sharks, eels, sea bass and hake) (HS code 030379)
- Frozen fish, n.e.s. (HS code 030389)
- Smoked fish, incl. fillets (excluding offal, Pacific salmon, Atlantic salmon, Danube salmon, herring, trout, tilapia, catfish, carp, eels, Nile perch and snakeheads) (HS code 030549)
- Fish, salted or in brine only (excluding fillets, offal, herring, cod, anchovies, tilapia, catfish, carp, eels, Nile perch and snakeheads) (HS code 030569)
- Dried fish, even salted but not smoked (excluding fillets, offal and cod) (HS code 030559)
- Prepared or preserved fish, whole or in pieces (excluding minced, merely smoked, and salmon, herrings, sardines, sardinella, brisling or sprats, tunas, skipjack, bonito "sarda spp.", mackerel, anchovies and eels) (HS code 160419)
- Prepared or preserved fish (excluding whole or in pieces) (HS code 160420)
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Uruguay fish export values
In 2019, Uruguay supplied fish with a value of 66.14m USD, a growth of 5.28% from 2018's total fish export of 62.821m USD. The annual growth in value of Uruguay fish between 2017 to 2018 was 21.558 pc.
The annual variation in the amount of Uruguay's fish exports between 2017 and 2019 was 23.3 percent compared to a variation of 8.128% in the period between 2018 and 2019.
Export markets for Uruguay fish ( in '000$ )
Uruguay ordered 3,952 tonnes of fish in 2019.