What is the price of salmon per kilogram/pound in Costa Rica today?
The retail price range for Costa Rica salmon is between US$ 10.85 and US$ 16.32 per kilogram or between US$ 4.92 and US$ 7.40 per pound(lb). Click here to see today's exact prices of salmon in Costa Rica
The retail price range in Costa Rican Colon for salmon is between CRC 5,894.12 and CRC 8,869.89 per kilogram or between CRC 2,673.07 and CRC 4,022.62 per pound(lb) in San José and Alajuela.
Wholesale prices
In 2026, the approximate wholesale price range for Costa Rica salmon is between US$ 7.59 and US$ 11.42 per kilogram or between US$ 3.44 and US$ 5.18 per pound(lb).
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Costa Rica salmon - Production, Exports, Imports, Seasons and HS Codes
The volume of salmon shipped by Costa Rica in 2020 was 6 metric tonnes. In 2019 Costa Rica shipped 15 tonnes of salmon. Through 2019 alone, the interest in Costa Rica salmon (fish category) has surged, changing by 87.5 pc compared to the year 2018. Between 2017 and 2019, salmon's exports went up by 50 pc netting the nation US$0.11m for the year 2019. Costa Rica's salmon exports are categorised as:
- Frozen Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and Danube salmon (Hucho hucho) (HS code 030322)
- Smoked Pacific salmon "Oncorhynchus nerka, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, Oncorhynchus keta, Oncorhynchus tschawytscha, Oncorhynchus kisutch, Oncorhynchus masou and Oncorhynchus rhodurus", Atlantic salmon "Salmo salar" and Danube salmon "Hucho hucho", incl. fillets (excluding offal) (HS code 030541)
- Fresh or chilled Pacific salmon Oncorhynchus nerka, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, Oncorhynchus keta, Oncorhynchus tschawytscha, Oncorhynchus kisutch, Oncorhynchus masou and Oncorhynchus rhodurus", Atlantic salmon "Salmo salar" and Danube salmon "Hucho hucho" (HS code 030212)
- Prepared or preserved salmon, whole or in pieces (excluding minced) (HS code 160411)
- Frozen sockeye salmon [red salmon] "Oncorhynchus nerka" (HS code 030311)
- Frozen Pacific salmon "Oncorhynchus nerka, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, Oncorhynchus keta, Oncorhynchus tschawytscha, Oncorhynchus kisutch, Oncorhynchus masou and Oncorhynchus rhodurus" (HS code 030310)
- Fresh or chilled salmonidae (excluding trout "Salmo trutta, Oncorhynchus mykiss, Oncorhynchus clarki, Oncorhynchus aguabonita, Oncorhynchus gilae, Oncorhynchus apache and Oncorhynchus chrysogaster", Pacific salmon "Oncorhynchus nerka, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, Oncorhynchus keta, Oncorhynchus tschawytscha, Oncorhynchus kisutch, Oncorhynchus masou and Oncorhynchus rhodurus", Atlantic salmon "Salmo salar" and Danube salmon "Hucho hucho") (HS code 030219)
- Fresh or chilled meat, whether or not minced, of salmonidae (excluding fillets) (HS code 030452)
- Fish fillets, dried, salted or in brine, but not smoked (excluding tilapia, catfish, carp, eels, Nile perch, snakeheads and fish of the families Bregmacerotidae, Euclichthyidae, Gadidae, Macrouridae, Melanonidae, Merlucciidae, Moridae and Muraenolepididae) (HS code 030539)
- Frozen, Atlantic salmon "Salmo salar" and Danube salmon "Hucho hucho" (HS code 030313)
- Frozen Pacific salmon (excluding sockeye salmon "red salmon") (HS code 030312)
- Frozen salmonidae (excluding trout and Pacific, Atlantic and Danube salmon) (HS code 030319)
- Fresh or chilled Pacific salmon "Oncorhynchus nerka, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, Oncorhynchus keta, Oncorhynchus tschawytscha, Oncorhynchus kisutch, Oncorhynchus masou and Oncorhynchus rhodurus" (HS code 030213)
- Frozen fillets of Pacific salmon "Oncorhynchus nerka, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, Oncorhynchus keta, Oncorhynchus tschawytscha, Oncorhynchus kisutch, Oncorhynchus masou and Oncorhynchus rhodurus", Atlantic salmon "Salmo salar" and Danube salmon "Hucho hucho" (HS code 030481)
- Fresh or chilled Atlantic salmon "Salmo salar" and Danube salmon "Hucho hucho" (HS code 030214)
- Salmon, fresh (HS code 0302Xa)
- Fresh or chilled fillets of Pacific salmon "Oncorhynchus nerka, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, Oncorhynchus keta, Oncorhynchus tschawytscha, Oncorhynchus kisutch, Oncorhynchus masou and Oncorhynchus rhodurus", Atlantic salmon "Salmo salar" and Danube salmon "Hucho hucho" (HS code 030441)
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Costa Rica salmon export values
In 2019, Costa Rica shipped salmon worth 0.11m USD, an increment of 80.33% from 2018's total salmon export of 0.061m USD. The yearly increase in value of Costa Rica salmon between 2017 to 2018 was -20.779 per cent.
The annual variation in the volume of Costa Rica's salmon exports between 2017 and 2019 was 50% when compared to a variation of 87.5% in the growth rate between 2018 and 2019.
Export markets for Costa Rica salmon ( in '000$ )
Costa Rica procured 902 tonnes of salmon in 2019.