Nigeria — Fishery/Seafood Products
Nigeria received 33 FDA import refusals in Fishery/Seafood Products between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 12 in 2026-Q4, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are filth, insanitary plant, and insanitary handling. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Nigeria, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import fishery/seafood products from Nigeria
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 33 refusals in the last 3 years, 25 were hazard findings and 8 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DSWI — Southwest, the Mexican land border (19); DSEI — Southeast (9); DWCI — West Coast (3).
- Riskiest months
- October, July, August, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- insanitary plant (15), filth (14), insanitary handling (4), undeclared allergen (2), insanitary conditions (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- nutrition labeling (11), ingredients not listed (9), labeling (8).
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.
Quarterly refusals, last 12 quarters
Show the numbers
| Quarter | Refusals | Hazard | Paperwork |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025-Q3 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2025-Q4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 9 | 7 | 2 |
| 2026-Q4 | 12 | 12 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fish-Other | 33 | — | — | insanitary plant |
| Shrimp-Prawn | 0 | — | — | — |
"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
- U72-0541301-7 TILAPIA Import division DSWI. insanitary plantinsanitary handling
- U72-0541005-4 FISH, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. filth
- 1FX-3814947-3 TILAPIA, AQUACULTURE HARVESTED FISHERY/SEAFOOD PRODUCTS Import division DWCI. ingredients not listedfilthno common namenutrition labeling
- U72-0540939-5 FISH, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. filthfalse or misleading labelundeclared allergenlabeling+1 more
- U72-0541093-0 SNAPPER (RED, GRAY, MALABAR, ETC.) Import division DSWI. filthinsanitary plant
- U72-0541170-6 SNAPPER (RED, GRAY, MALABAR, ETC.) Import division DSWI. insanitary plantinsanitary handling
- U72-0541035-1 TILAPIA Import division DSWI. filthlabeling
- U72-0541131-8 TILAPIA Import division DSWI. filth
- U72-0541105-2 SNAPPER (RED, GRAY, MALABAR, ETC.) Import division DSWI. filthinsanitary plant
- U72-0541112-8 TILAPIA Import division DSWI. filth
- 88P-0006362-6 HAKE, HOT SMOKED, FISH Import division DSWI. insanitary plantinsanitary handling
- U72-0541138-3 SNAPPER (RED, GRAY, MALABAR, ETC.) Import division DSWI. filthinsanitary plant
- U72-0540990-8 FISH, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. insanitary plant
- U72-0541042-7 FISH, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. insanitary plant
- 88P-0005791-7 HAKE, HOT SMOKED, FISH Import division DSWI. insanitary plantinsanitary handling
- U72-0540722-5 TILAPIA Import division DSWI. insanitary plant
- U72-0540751-4 SNAPPER (RED, GRAY, MALABAR, ETC.) Import division DSWI. filthinsanitary plant
- N56-0051180-6 HAKE, HOT SMOKED, FISH Import division DWCI. flavor not declaredno common namelabelingnutrition labeling+6 more
- 8B4-0012623-9 COD Import division DSEI. ingredients not listedlabelingnot to standard of identitynutrition labeling
- SCS-3536231-5 CRAYFISH (CRAWFISH), FRESH WATER Import division DWCI. filth
Data and downloads
Download all 41 entries (CSV) — every refusal behind this page, with its import division, FDA product code, charges and whether it was a hazard finding or paperwork.
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Nigeria country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →