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Shetland Seafood Auctions: auction in Lerwick / Scalloway

Shetland Seafood Auctions (SSA) connects fish trading at Lerwick and Scalloway in Scotland's Shetland Islands. Lerwick / Scalloway, United Kingdom.

AGR-403 · Auction · Lerwick / Scalloway, United Kingdom · GBP

Shetland Seafood Auctions (SSA) connects fish trading at Lerwick and Scalloway in Scotland's Shetland Islands. This directory treats it as one auction network serving two physical markets. The joint electronic auction was introduced in 2003. The company is listed as active in the UK company register, with its registered office at Mairs Quay. Buyers gain a coordinated route to landed fish; vessel operators gain an organised first-sale channel. The two collection locations still matter when arranging transport.

A local report at the end of the 2025 auction season records 325,972 boxes of whitefish across the two markets, compared with 436,210 boxes in 2018. These figures measure boxes, not tonnes or sales revenue. They should not be converted into kilograms without a verified packing weight. They provide a useful indication of trading scale and supply, but do not establish an equivalent change in earnings, quality or the number of individual transactions.

SSA participates in weighing and grading, and trading uses an online system. A first-time buyer should clarify trading access, settlement arrangements and the collection contact for the relevant market. An enquiry for cod or haddock is more useful when it specifies size grade, product presentation, net weight, landing time and temperature requirements. Buyers shipping beyond the islands should arrange refrigerated carriage and allow for transport connections. These are practical purchasing suggestions, rather than a reproduction of SSA's contractual rules.

A seller should prepare a consistent lot schedule covering species, package count, weight, grade and information linking the goods to their landing. Clarify responsibility for sorting, ice, storage and any quality complaint before consigning fish. A processor may find consistency of size and the ability to collect a uniform batch more valuable than the day's highest headline price. Keep the Lerwick and Scalloway collection details separate in logistics documents even when purchasing through the shared auction network. Written instructions also help a carrier identify the correct batch.

Lerwick Port's website identifies a Daily Fish Prices channel based on SSA information. Failure to retrieve a report does not mean that the market is closed. Historical quotations neither reserve fish nor guarantee availability at the next sale. For a purchasing budget, add handling, packaging and freight only after establishing what the quoted price includes.

What is priced: Fish and seafood

Products and quotations

Whitefish including cod; haddock; monkfish; whiting; saithe and flatfish; assortment depends on landings

Sources

All agricultural exchanges, markets and price sources