If you’ve ever tried to build a seafood budget, you already know the problem: fragmented supply chains, regional pricing quirks, and very few public benchmarks you can actually defend in a negotiation. Today, that changes for Vesper users.

We’re expanding our partnership with Undercurrent, one of the most respected seafood price reporting platforms in the world, to bring 3,500+ price series across 15 product groups directly into Vesper, alongside the dairy, sugar, oils, grains, and cocoa data you already use every day.

Here’s what’s now inside, who it’s for, and how to put it to work.

What’s actually new

The expansion adds over 3,500 individual fish and seafood price series, spread across 15 distinct product groups that cover everything from salmon and shrimp to tuna, whitefish, pelagics, and a long list of regional and species-specific cuts your procurement team has likely been tracking in spreadsheets until now.

Why fish & seafood needed this

Seafood is one of the hardest commodity categories to price with confidence, because supply chains span dozens of producing countries, species carry different premiums by origin, season, and processing method, and unlike grains or sugar, there’s no central futures market most buyers can lean on for a reliable benchmark.

The result is that most procurement teams end up building their seafood budgets on a patchwork of supplier quotes and outdated industry reports, which makes it hard to budget accurately or push back during negotiations.

Undercurrent solves the data side of that problem. They’ve spent years building one of the most trusted price reporting agencies in seafood, with reporters on the ground in producing regions and a methodology that buyers, sellers, and traders rely on globally.

By bringing their expanded price series into Vesper, you can now compare seafood price movements against your other ingredients in one place, build cost models that include fish and shellfish inputs alongside other commodities, and walk into supplier negotiations with a verified market reference instead of a guess.

Who this is for

If your sourcing scope touches seafood at any meaningful volume, this update is for you, and it’s especially relevant if you sit in one of these roles:

•       Retailers managing private-label seafood ranges

•       Food service operators sourcing fresh, frozen, or processed seafood at scale

•       Food manufacturers using seafood as an ingredient in ready meals, sauces, or prepared foods

•       Commercial teams supporting clients with global protein portfolios

How access works

Undercurrent’s price data is available to customers who hold an active Undercurrent subscription, and if your team already subscribes, you can view the full dataset inside Vesper alongside your other commodity insights, with no separate logins and no exporting between platforms.

If you’d like to see how the data looks inside Vesper before committing, reach out to your account manager and we’ll walk you through a live demo.

What this means for your next budget cycle

Seafood markets aren’t going to stop being volatile, but you can now plan around that volatility with the same rigor you apply to your other ingredients, building cost models that include seafood inputs, comparing regional benchmarks before you sit down with suppliers, and tracking next year’s seafood spend in the same workspace you already use for the rest of your portfolio.