Shrimp prices: questions and answers
Shrimp: median wholesale price 16.5 EUR/kg across 23 markets in 8 countries, quotes to 10 November 2026. Answers calculated from current market quotes on Husfarm and FAOSTAT data.
What is the wholesale price of shrimp today?
The median wholesale price of shrimp was 16.5 EUR/kg across 60 current quotes on 23 markets in 8 countries (latest quote 10 November 2026). Half of the quotes were between 10.32 and 29.13 EUR/kg.
Each quote is the midpoint of the lowest and highest price the market published, converted to euros per kilogram at the day’s reference rate. Quotes per piece or per pack without a weight are left out of this figure.
How do prices differ between types of shrimp?
| Type | Quotes | Median |
|---|---|---|
| Prawn | 24 | 18.4 EUR/kg |
| Cooked | 17 | 10.3 EUR/kg |
| Frozen | 9 | 27.0 EUR/kg |
| Type not stated | 7 | 18.3 EUR/kg |
| Scampi | 3 | 45.0 EUR/kg |
Types are read from the names the markets publish, so that a comparison puts like with like. Quotes whose name gives no type are kept together.
What is the price of shrimp in different countries?
| Country | Markets | Median, EUR/kg | Median, local currency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colombia | 13 | 11.1 EUR/kg | 39,000 COP/kg |
| Spain | 4 | 27.5 EUR/kg | — |
| India | 1 | 2.83 EUR/kg | 300.0 INR/kg |
| Italy | 1 | 8.08 EUR/kg | — |
| France | 1 | 30.0 EUR/kg | — |
| Poland | 1 | 10.2 EUR/kg | 45.0 PLN/kg |
| Turkey | 1 | 10.8 EUR/kg | 600.0 TRY/kg |
Countries with the most markets quoting shrimp; medians of the latest quote of each series.
Are prices of shrimp going up or down?
At the latest publication compared with the previous one, 4 of 34 quotes for shrimp rose, 7 fell and 23 were unchanged; the median change was 0.0%.
Each market is compared with its own previous quote for the same series, so the figure is not affected by which markets published on a given day. Markets publish daily, weekly or less often, so the comparison covers different periods for different markets.
Which markets publish shrimp prices?
23 markets in 8 countries have current shrimp quotes on Husfarm. Those with the most quotes:
- Mercamadrid Spain · 27 quotes
- Obour Wholesale Market Egypt · 5 quotes
- Bogotá Paloquemao Market Colombia · 4 quotes
- MIN Rungis France · 3 quotes
- Mercados de Abastecimientos de Barcelona SA Spain · 2 quotes
- Milan Wholesale Market Italy · 2 quotes
- Bogotá DC Corabastos Wholesale Market Colombia · 2 quotes
- Bogotá Plaza Las Flores Colombia · 2 quotes
Why are there so many different shrimp prices?
Markets publish a separate price for each variety, grade, size, origin and pack. Husfarm shows 41 different shrimp quote names, for example: Giant prawns; Jumbo shrimp; Tiger shrimp, precooked; Prawns cooked large France; Frozen prawns; Whiteleg shrimp, Frozen, farmed, Litopenaeus vannamei, PNV.
Compare like with like: the same market and series over time, or the same type across markets. How to read a wholesale quote
Where do these shrimp prices come from?
Husfarm reads the price bulletins and tables that markets, exchanges and official price reports publish, keeps each price in the market’s own currency and unit with its date and source, and converts it to euros per kilogram for comparison.
How often are shrimp prices updated?
The latest shrimp quote is from 10 November 2026; 17 of 23 markets published shrimp prices in the seven days to 11 November 2026. Each market publishes on its own schedule, from daily to monthly.
Can I get alerts or download shrimp prices?
Yes. You can set an e-mail alert for shrimp prices on a market or across markets, and download the current quotes and their history as CSV files free of charge.
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Prices: market quotes collected by Husfarm, as published by each market; conversions at ECB and market reference rates. Production and trade: FAO, FAOSTAT (CC BY 4.0). Answers are calculated automatically from the current data and change when the data changes.