BajaNomad

Seafood prices

ridendude - 1-9-2020 at 05:06 PM

Hello all. I've been down here for a couple months and am curious what kind of prices people are paying for the seafood bought off the fishermen that sell it right from their boat or on the beach? Stuff like Octopus, lobster, crab shrimp and clams? I've never bought this way and am curious what fair prices would be.
Thanks in advance for your input.
Cheers.

Bajazly - 1-9-2020 at 05:21 PM

If it's too cheap to believe, it's spot on. Last shrimp I bought a few weeks ago were 250 pesos per kilo, very fresh and very large with no heads. A kilo of scallops right out of the water last week in Bahia Conception was 350 pesos a kilo.

Where you are may make a bit of a difference tho.

bajabuddha - 1-9-2020 at 05:38 PM

Just a hint of what to buy, not the price of...... when buying scallops (acha or ancha, not catalinas) ask for "talones" rather than the 'puros' (musculos).

I used to order them from Bertha herself at the Coyote store on Concepcion, or the divers I knew that harvested. You'll never go back to the big fat round ones again.

gnukid - 1-10-2020 at 06:51 AM

Snapper Huauchinango 140 kilo

bajapedro - 1-10-2020 at 07:36 AM

Bought azul shrimp last month San Felipe $(US)20/kg.

gnukid - 1-10-2020 at 07:40 AM

Much more variability in shellfish prices depending on availability and location

Lee - 1-10-2020 at 10:31 AM

Just paid about 400 pesos for huge azul shrimp in Todos from a fish truck on Obregon across from Lizarraga.

HeyMulegeScott - 1-10-2020 at 05:03 PM

In Mulege - Shrimp 250 pesos per kilo. Ling Cod - 250 per kilo. 200 per kilo for sea bass.