Seafood wholesalers
Seafood wholesalers in France, city by city
Paris and Rungis, Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon… Wholesale markets, supply ports and delivery: sourcing fresh seafood, city by city.
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Away from the ports, fresh fish arrives through the wholesale market, through a seafood wholesaler who delivers, or directly from a fish merchant (mareyeur) on the coast. Each page describes, city by city, where these suppliers are, what can be bought there and how to get it delivered.
The cities
- Paris and Rungis : Rungis (seafood hall hours, buyer's card), delivering wholesalers, shipments from ports: where the fish delivered to Paris comes from and how to get it.
- Bordeaux : Fresh seafood in Bordeaux: MIN de Brienne, fish merchants of Arcachon, Royan, Oléron and Saint-Jean-de-Luz. Where delivered fish comes from, how to get it.
- Lille : Fresh seafood in Lille: the Lomme wholesale market does not mention it. Boulogne fish merchants, Flemish auction, Normandy: where delivered fish comes from.
- Lyon : Lyon has no fresh seafood trading floor: delivering wholesalers, Mediterranean and Atlantic fish merchants, Rungis. Where fish comes from and how to get it.
- Marseille : Fresh seafood in Marseille: MIN des Arnavaux (hours, access), Saumaty fish merchants, Languedoc fish auctions. Where delivered fish comes from, how to get it.
- Nantes : Fresh seafood in Nantes: the MIN at Rezé and five fish auctions about 100 km away (La Turballe, Le Croisic, Noirmoutier, Saint-Gilles, Les Sables).
- Nice : Fresh seafood in Nice: no fish auction in the region, two seafood companies at the MIN d'Azur, small-scale local fishing. Where fish comes from, how to get it.
- Toulouse : Fresh seafood in Toulouse: the Grand Marché MIN, Languedoc fish auctions about 175 km away, Arcachon and Saint-Jean-de-Luz about 310 km away.
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