Lota de Figueira da Foz — Docapesca: auction in Figueira da Foz
Estimated landings: 8,168.4 t | 2024. Figueira da Foz, Portugal. Products, price publication, key figures and sources.
AGR-416 · Auction · Figueira da Foz, Portugal · EUR
Estimated landings: 8,168.4 t | 2024. Figueira da Foz delegation; administrative scope, not hall-only turnover.
Lota de Figueira da Foz is part of the Docapesca network and handles first-sale seafood trading at Cabedelo fishing harbour. The operator confirms both physical and online auctions and separates scheduling information for trawl, artisanal, purse-seine and bivalve landings. It is relevant to wholesalers, processors and professional seafood buyers. Direct contact with the local office is the practical way to establish which supply streams will be available, rather than assuming that the same assortment can be purchased throughout the year.
DGRM’s 2024 publication records estimated landings of 8,168.4 tonnes and an average landed value of EUR 1.69/kg for the Figueira da Foz delegation. These figures have an administrative scope and must not be presented as the turnover of a single auction hall. Both indicators carry this qualification in the spreadsheet. The annual average combines species and seasons, making it unsuitable as a direct valuation benchmark for an arbitrary lot of squid, horse mackerel or other individual seafood.
Docapesca states that buyers must be registered traders and use an appropriate bidding device or an online access licence. Before a first transaction, clarify account activation, payment and collection arrangements. A purchasing enquiry should specify the species, size class, product condition and lot quantity. Remote buyers should also agree how boxes will be identified and weight confirmed, so the collecting vehicle receives the intended goods. Access to the market’s public statistics does not itself authorise a visitor to place bids.
Sellers should contact the local office about vessel-owner registration, delivery notification and the timetable for their landing category. For commercial planning, request the applicable charges, storage arrangements and settlement timetable before committing a consignment. A comparison with another port should include the distance to customers and the cost of maintaining temperature. An apparently attractive sale can deliver a weaker net outcome if it involves extra handling, a prolonged wait for refrigerated transport or packaging that the customer cannot use efficiently.
The public daily-statistics page offers a Figueira da Foz filter and species and grade rows, including horse mackerel and conger. The operator describes data collection during auctions, but a dynamic display is not a permanent archive for the date on which this directory was prepared. Verify the selected venue, observation date and unit before extracting a number. Size codes should not be treated as separate species. Anyone building a price history should preserve each observation together with its metadata, and distinguish public reporting from the licensed online bidding service.
What is priced: Livestock and meat, Fish and seafood
Products and quotations
Marine fish; cephalopods and bivalves; including horse mackerel; sardine; conger and squid
Key figures
- Average landed value: 1.69 EUR/kg (2024). 2024. Figueira da Foz delegation; all species combined.
Sources
- Docapesca: venue, contact and buyer access
- Public daily statistics
- DGRM, Recursos da Pesca 2024, p. 116
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