What is the price of fish per kilogram/pound in Costa Rica today?
The retail price range for Costa Rica fish is between US$ 3.46 and US$ 16.13 per kilogram or between US$ 1.57 and US$ 7.32 per pound(lb). Click here to see today's exact prices of fish in Costa Rica
The retail price range in Costa Rican Colon for fish is between CRC 1,882.77 and CRC 8,768.34 per kilogram or between CRC 853.86 and CRC 3,976.57 per pound(lb) in San José and Alajuela.
Wholesale prices
In 2024, the approximate wholesale price range for Costa Rica fish is between US$ 2.43 and US$ 11.29 per kilogram or between US$ 1.10 and US$ 5.12 per pound(lb).
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Costa Rica fish - Production, Exports, Imports, Seasons and HS Codes
The amount of fish sold by Costa Rica in 2020 was 1,485 metric tonnes. In 2019 Costa Rica sold 1,999 tonnes of fish. For 2019 alone, the market for Costa Rica fish (fish category) has gone down, with a change of -41.991 % compared to the year 2018. Between 2017 and 2019, fish's exports went down by -17.26 pc bringing the nation US$14.83m for the year 2019. Costa Rica's fish exports are classified as:
- Prepared or preserved fish (excluding whole or in pieces) (HS code 160420)
- Smoked fish, incl. fillets (excluding offal, Pacific salmon, Atlantic salmon, Danube salmon, herring, trout, tilapia, catfish, carp, eels, Nile perch and snakeheads) (HS code 030549)
- Dried fish, even salted but not smoked (excluding fillets, offal and cod) (HS code 030559)
- Frozen freshwater and saltwater fish (excluding salmonidae, flat fish, tunas, skipjack or stripe-bellied bonito, herrings, cod, swordfish, toothfish, sardines, sardinella, brisling or sprats, haddock, coalfish, mackerel, dogfish and other sharks, eels, sea bass and hake) (HS code 030379)
- Prepared or preserved fish, whole or in pieces (excluding minced, merely smoked, and salmon, herrings, sardines, sardinella, brisling or sprats, tunas, skipjack, bonito "sarda spp.", mackerel, anchovies and eels) (HS code 160419)
- Fish, salted or in brine only (excluding fillets, offal, herring, cod, anchovies, tilapia, catfish, carp, eels, Nile perch and snakeheads) (HS code 030569)
- Fresh or chilled freshwater and saltwater fish (excluding salmonidae, flat fish, tunas, skipjack or stripe-bellied bonito, herrings, cod, sardines, sardinella, brisling or sprats, haddock, coalfish, mackerel, sharks, eels, swordfish and toothfish) (HS code 030269)
- Frozen fish, n.e.s. (HS code 030389)
- Fresh or chilled fish, n.e.s. (HS code 030289)
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Costa Rica fish export values
In 2019, Costa Rica exported fish worth 14.83m USD, a contraction of -28.45% from 2018's total fish export of 20.728m USD. The annual change in value of Costa Rica fish between 2017 to 2018 was 38.251 per cent.
The annual change in the volume of Costa Rica's fish exports between 2017 and 2019 was -17.26 percent in comparison to a variation of -41.991% in the period between 2018 and 2019.
Export markets for Costa Rica fish ( in '000$ )
Costa Rica bought 814 tonnes of fish in 2019.