Complete Seafood Market Price Guide Hong Kong
Hong Kong's live seafood moves through a wholesale market before it reaches a tank, a stall or a table, and the prices paid there are published. This page reproduces those published prices — dated, species by species, exactly as the Fish Marketing Organization lists them — and then explains how a bill in the Lei Yue Mun market is built on top of them.
What it does not print is a price list for the stalls on Hoi Pong Road. No tourism body, government department or market publishes a per-catty retail tariff for the village, and a stall quotes you at the tank, for the fish in front of you, on the day. So this page answers the other half of the question: what the fish cost the trade, on a date you can check.
⚠️ Read this first: what these figures are, and what they are not
Wholesale, not retail. Every figure below is a wholesale reference price from one of Hong Kong's wholesale fish markets. It is not the price a stall on Hoi Pong Road will ask you for the same fish.
Per kilogram, not per catty. The markets quote in HK$ per kg; the village trades in catties — about 600 g. The conversion column in the tables is explained below.
Castle Peak and the other markets. The live-seafood quotations are supplied from the Castle Peak fish market (青山魚類批發市場) or from the other FMO markets — not from a Lei Yue Mun tank.
For reference only. The markets label their own quotations 報價祇供參考之用 — for reference only.
They move daily. Each table carries the price date printed on it. Read every figure together with its date, never on its own.
📊 What Hong Kong's wholesale markets actually paid
The Fish Marketing Organization (FMO) is the statutory body that runs Hong Kong's wholesale fish markets, and it publishes a daily reference price list: HK$ per kilogram, per species, with the price date printed on it. The tables below reproduce the species and shellfish a visitor is most likely to meet in the village. Each table carries the price date the market printed on the list it reproduces.
Live seafood — price date 03/10/2026
| Species, as the market prints it | Wholesale reference price, HK$ per kg (high–low as printed) | ≈ wholesale per 600 g catty (converted) |
|---|---|---|
| 青斑 Green grouper | 116.00–260.00 | about 70–156 |
| 老虎斑 Brown marbled grouper | 180.00–462.00 | about 108–277 |
| 芝麻斑 Brown-spotted grouper | 110.00–297.00 | about 66–178 |
| 杉斑 Camouflage grouper | 200.00–429.00 | about 120–257 |
| 東星斑 Leopard coral grouper | 220.00–660.00 | about 132–396 |
| 金絲立 Gold-lined seabream | 66.00–74.00 | about 40–44 |
| 頭鱸 Head grunt | 74.00–83.00 | about 44–50 |
| 紅魚 Malabar Red snapper | 42.00–130.00 | about 25–78 |
| 紅鮪 Mangrove snapper | 66.00–130.00 | about 40–78 |
| 細鱗 Painted sweetlip | 39.00–120.00 | about 23–72 |
Shellfish — price date 17/09/2026
| Species, as the market prints it | Wholesale reference price, HK$ per kg (high–low as printed) | ≈ wholesale per 600 g catty (converted) |
|---|---|---|
| 瀨尿蝦 Mantis shrimps | 83.00–335.00 | about 50–201 |
| 澳洲龍蝦 Australian lobster | 363.00–429.00 | about 218–257 |
| 大蝦 Large prawns | 429.00–594.00 | about 257–356 |
| 中蝦 Medium prawns | 149.00–215.00 | about 89–129 |
| 紅蟹 Red crab | 150.00–660.00 | about 90–396 |
| 三點蟹 Three-spotted crab | 45.00–116.00 | about 27–70 |
Chilled marine fish — price date 13/10/2026
| Species, as the market prints it | Wholesale reference price, HK$ per kg (as printed) | ≈ wholesale per 600 g catty (converted) |
|---|---|---|
| 鷹鯧 Chinese pomfret | 330.69 | about 198 |
| 黑鯧 Black pomfret | 26.46 | about 16 |
| 木棉 Big-eyes | 36.00–95.70 | about 22–57 |
| 沙鯭 File Fish | 27.00–75.90 | about 16–46 |
Species are named as the market's list names them, and every price is copied exactly as printed — a single figure where the market printed one. The last column is our own conversion of the wholesale figure at 0.6 (600 g to the catty), rounded to the nearest dollar: it is a way of reading the wholesale quote in the unit the village uses, not a price any stall will offer you.
⚖️ The catty, and reading a wholesale figure as one
Hong Kong sells fish by the catty (斤). The legal catty is 604.78982 g under the Weights and Measures Ordinance (Cap 68). In practice everyone says "about 600 g", which is the figure the last column of the tables above uses.
A per-catty number is therefore only ever a conversion of the wholesale figure beside it. When a stall quotes you a price per catty, that number is the stall's own — for the fish in the tank, on the day, to you — and nothing on this page predicts it. No figure here is a stall price, and none should be read as one.
What the tables are good for is proportion. 東星斑 leopard coral grouper showed a high three times its own low in the same list — 660 against 220 — and the cheapest rows on the boards (細鱗, 紅魚, 三點蟹) sit at a fraction of a premium grouper per kilogram. That spread is why a seafood bill moves so fast, and why the next section matters more than any single price.
🍽️ How a Lei Yue Mun bill is built on top of that price
The village works on buy-then-cook. You choose the seafood at a stall on Hoi Pong Road, agree a price by weight, watch it weighed, and then carry it to a restaurant that cooks it for a fee. The house is not selling you the fish; it is selling you the cooking, its own dishes and its tables. So the bill stacks three things on the market price: the seafood by weight, the cooking fee, and whatever else you order from the kitchen.
The one part to settle before you hand the bag over is the basis of the cooking fee. Some houses charge it per person; others charge it per dish — ask before you hand the bag over, and get the basis as well as the number.
For what a meal actually costs once it reaches the table — the set-menu prices, the houses that will cook what you bring, and what diners report paying per head — see the Lei Yue Mun seafood restaurant guide.
🐟 Aberdeen, and the rest of the market hierarchy
Hong Kong's marine fish is landed and sold wholesale through seven markets run by the FMO under the Marine Fish (Marketing) Ordinance (Cap 291) and administered by the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department. Aberdeen Wholesale Fish Market is one of the primary wholesale facilities among them: 102 Shek Pai Wan Road, about 15,577 square metres of floor, trading 04:00–14:00.
Aberdeen is worth knowing about even if you never buy there, because the tourism board calls it the oldest and largest wholesale fish market in Hong Kong — built in 1950, supplied by fishermen from Cheung Chau, the southern islands and as far as Macau, and carrying more than 70 per cent of the local live seafood. The visitor's side of it is not the auction floor: it is the promenade boardwalk alongside, where the fisherfolk sell the day's catch from their boats.
Not every seafood market in Hong Kong is a wholesale one, and the difference decides what you are actually looking at. Sai Kung's is the boats themselves: the tourism board's own page quotes a local chef describing "the floating seafood market along the street", where you can bargain and choose your own live seafood from the boats.
🍚 Eating inside the market: Yee Hope Restaurant
The canteen inside Aberdeen Wholesale Fish Market is Yee Hope Restaurant, open Monday to Sunday, 4am–3pm. It opens at 4am because its customers are the fishermen and the market workers coming off the floor; there is no menu and no English spoken, so point at what you want. The market's own published window is 04:00–14:00, so the canteen opens with the floor and stays on after it closes.
Read the tables as what they are: what the wholesale market paid for the fish, on the dates printed beside them, in the one unit the village trades in. What you pay on Hoi Pong Road sits above that, and it moves with the day, the species, the size and the house that cooks it. The number worth fixing before you sit down is therefore not a price per catty — it is the shape of the bill: what the seafood weighs, how the cooking fee is charged, and what else the table orders.
Related Guides: Lei Yue Mun Seafood Bazaar | Aberdeen Comparison | Lei Yue Mun seafood restaurants