UK fish market price intelligence — built for the trade.
Quayside aggregates daily auction prices from fish markets across the UK into a single, normalised data feed. We publish it every morning so that fish merchants, processors, and buyers can see what's moving, where, and at what price — without checking six websites before 8am.
Fish merchants have always worked by instinct and relationship — knowing which harbourmaster to call, which port is running well this week, which species is short. That intelligence was partly aggregated by Billingsgate and the wholesale layer that sat beneath it. That layer is weakening.
For smaller merchants and processors — particularly those operating across multiple species or buying from multiple regions — the price information they need to make good decisions is fragmented across PDFs, spreadsheets, and phone calls. Quayside collects it, normalises it, and delivers it daily.
Every weekday morning, Quayside pulls auction prices from active UK fish markets. Where ports publish digital price sheets (PDF, Excel, HTML), we scrape them automatically. Where they don't, we work directly with harbour operators to receive and process their data.
Raw prices arrive in inconsistent formats — different species names, different grade systems, different currencies for Scottish versus English ports. We standardise everything: canonical species names, comparable grades, £/kg across the board.
A daily digest lands in your inbox before the working day starts. Trade subscribers get access to the full cross-port intelligence dashboard — species-first, so you can see where the best price for Haddock Grade A is across every port reporting that day.
I grew up on a livestock farm in Norfolk. My father travelled the country to markets — cattle, sheep, pigs — and the thing I remember most clearly wasn't the animals, it was the information problem. Prices were fragmented. You had to be there, or know someone who was there, to know what things were worth that day.
That pattern repeats itself across every traditional commodity market. Fishing is no different. Auction prices at Peterhead don't automatically reach a buyer in Grimsby. A processor in Cornwall has no easy way to see what Haddock is trading at in Lerwick. The data exists — ports publish it — but it's scattered.
I've spent 12 years in digital communications, helping organisations present complex information clearly. When AI made it genuinely possible to parse inconsistent, unstructured data at scale, I knew the time had come to build what I'd always thought should exist: a single daily price feed for the UK fishing trade.
Quayside is that product. It's early. The port coverage is growing. But the core of it — collect, normalise, deliver — works today.
Quayside currently aggregates daily prices from the following UK fish auction ports.
| Port | Region | Data method | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brixham | England — South West | Automated scraper | Live |
| Lerwick | Scotland — North & Islands | Automated scraper | Live |
| Newlyn | England — South West | Automated scraper | Live |
| Peterhead | Scotland — North East | Automated scraper | Live |
| Scrabster | Scotland — North & Islands | Automated scraper | Live |
Additional ports are in active onboarding. If you operate a fish auction and want your prices included, get in touch → — there's no cost to ports.
All price records go through an automated quality pipeline before publication: outlier detection, price sanity checks, stale data alerts, and species normalisation. Records that fail checks are flagged rather than suppressed, so subscribers can see data quality signals alongside the prices themselves.
Read our full data methodology →Quayside is a trading name of High Elm Productions Ltd, registered in England and Wales.
We are registered with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) as a data controller.
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