Nicaragua — Fishery/Seafood Products
Nicaragua received 9 FDA import refusals in Fishery/Seafood Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 3 in 2024-Q4, with the trend falling sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are filth, HACCP failure, and Salmonella. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Nicaragua, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
Key figures
If you import fishery/seafood products from Nicaragua
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 9 refusals in the last 3 years, 5 were hazard findings and 4 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DSEI — Southeast (5); DNEI — Northeast (2); DWCI — West Coast (2).
- Riskiest months
- January, February, December, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- filth (4), Salmonella (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- HACCP failure (4), not in English (1), nutrition labeling (1).
FDA does not publish how many entries it examines, so no page can state a true probability of refusal; these are the figures that are published.
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Quarterly refusals, last 12 quarters
Show the numbers
| Quarter | Refusals | Hazard | Paperwork |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-Q4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fish-Other | 9 | — | — | filth |
"1 refusal per X t": tonnes of the same product imported for every one, over the same 156 weeks. A dash means fewer than 5 in the window, or under 1,000 t a year imported, too few to rate; the total row pools every product that has import tonnes on record.
Recent refusals
- D97-2349635-9 MAHI MAHI Import division DSEI. filth
- D77-3002917-1 SEA CUCUMBER, OTHER AQUATIC SPECIES Import division DNEI. HACCP failure
- 8UE-0217268-1 SEA CUCUMBER, OTHER AQUATIC SPECIES Import division DWCI. HACCP failure
- B5Q-0006752-9 SEA CUCUMBER, COLD SMOKED, OTHER AQUATIC SPECIES Import division DNEI. HACCP failure
- E4P-0091734-4 FISH, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. Salmonella
- AQZ-0595534-2 FISH, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. filth
- RC9-0033599-8 SPINY LOBSTER, ROCK LOBSTER Import division DSEI. filthnot in Englishnutrition labeling
- RC9-0033552-7 SPINY LOBSTER, ROCK LOBSTER Import division DSEI. filth
- D97-1960649-0 MAHI MAHI Import division DSEI. HACCP failure
- EVR-0131739-0 SEA CUCUMBER, OTHER AQUATIC SPECIES Import division DWCI. HACCP failure
- RC9-0032227-7 GROUPERS Import division DSEI. filth
- D97-1793952-1 FLOUNDER (ARROWTOOTH, DAB, FLUKE) Import division DSEI. Salmonella
- RC9-0032092-5 MAHI MAHI Import division DSEI. filth
- RC9-0031976-0 GROUPERS Import division DSEI. filth
- 83S-0009265-4 SNAPPER (RED, GRAY, MALABAR, ETC.) Import division DSEI. filth
- RC9-0031420-9 MAHI MAHI Import division DSEI. filth
- EVR-0105919-0 FISH MAW, FISHERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. filth
- EVR-0107220-1 FISH MAW, FISHERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. filth
- BLW-0593274-0 FISH MAW, FISHERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. filth
- 799-4452728-0 FISH MAW, FISHERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. filth
Data and downloads
Download all 20 entries (CSV) — every refusal behind this page, with its import division, FDA product code, charges and whether it was a hazard finding or paperwork.
The file holds entries up to 2026-09-17. To get new ones for Nicaragua by email, watch Nicaragua.
Nicaragua country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →