What is the price of fish per kilogram/pound in Vanuatu today?
The retail price range for Vanuatu fish is between US$ 3.35 and US$ 12.24 per kilogram or between US$ 1.52 and US$ 5.55 per pound(lb). Click here to see today's exact prices of fish in Vanuatu
The retail price range in Vatu for fish is between VUV 397.47 and VUV 1,453.61 per kilogram or between VUV 180.26 and VUV 659.23 per pound(lb) in Port Vila and Luganville.
Wholesale prices
In 2025, the approximate wholesale price range for Vanuatu fish is between US$ 2.34 and US$ 8.57 per kilogram or between US$ 1.06 and US$ 3.89 per pound(lb).
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Vanuatu fish - Production, Exports, Imports, Seasons and HS Codes
In 2019 Vanuatu shipped 1,239 tonnes of fish. In 2019 alone, the demand for Vanuatu fish (fish category) has improved, recording a change of 18.678 % compared to the year 2018. Between 2017 and 2019, fish's exports decreased by -21.28% netting the exporter US$1.90m for the year 2019. Vanuatu's fish exports are categorised as:
- Prepared or preserved fish (excluding whole or in pieces) (HS code 160420)
- Frozen fish, n.e.s. (HS code 030389)
- Prepared or preserved fish, whole or in pieces (excluding minced, merely smoked, and salmon, herrings, sardines, sardinella, brisling or sprats, tunas, skipjack, bonito "sarda spp.", mackerel, anchovies and eels) (HS code 160419)
- Fresh or chilled freshwater and saltwater fish (excluding salmonidae, flat fish, tunas, skipjack or stripe-bellied bonito, herrings, cod, sardines, sardinella, brisling or sprats, haddock, coalfish, mackerel, sharks, eels, swordfish and toothfish) (HS code 030269)
- Smoked fish, incl. fillets (excluding offal, Pacific salmon, Atlantic salmon, Danube salmon, herring, trout, tilapia, catfish, carp, eels, Nile perch and snakeheads) (HS code 030549)
- Frozen freshwater and saltwater fish (excluding salmonidae, flat fish, tunas, skipjack or stripe-bellied bonito, herrings, cod, swordfish, toothfish, sardines, sardinella, brisling or sprats, haddock, coalfish, mackerel, dogfish and other sharks, eels, sea bass and hake) (HS code 030379)
- Dried fish, even salted but not smoked (excluding fillets, offal and cod) (HS code 030559)
- Fish, salted or in brine only (excluding fillets, offal, herring, cod, anchovies, tilapia, catfish, carp, eels, Nile perch and snakeheads) (HS code 030569)
- Fresh or chilled fish, n.e.s. (HS code 030289)
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Vanuatu fish export values
In 2019, Vanuatu sold fish valued at 1.90m USD, a growth of 33.90% from 2018's total fish export of 1.419m USD. The annual growth in value of Vanuatu fish between 2017 to 2018 was -34.153 pc.
The annual/yearly variation in the amount of Vanuatu's fish exports between 2017 and 2019 was -21.28 percent when compared to a variation of 18.678% in the growth rate between 2018 and 2019.
Export markets for Vanuatu fish ( in '000$ )
Vanuatu procured 365 tonnes of fish in 2019.