Globalfish.net is an interactive seafood trading and auction platform for professional buyers and sellers of fish and seafood products; it is a membership-based community dedicated to connecting businesses with each other, creating an accessible domestic and international marketplace.

For more information, go to How to use Globalfish.net

Globalfish.net lets you…

• search for offers and requests for offers using a state-of-the-art search tool, without ever being spammed;
• set up your own product profile and select the criteria you want your listings to be matched with;
  
• enter your product profiles which are automatically converted to either Offers to Sell or Requests for Offers (depending on your status as a Seller or a Buyer) and subsequently posted on the site;
  
• receive daily email alerts when a product matching your search criteria is posted online;
• communicate directly with other Globalfish.net members by using Skype integrated VoIP-systems during negotiations (separate Skype subscription required);
• send and receive messages, pictures and other documents;
• negotiate simultaneously with multiple trading partners on-line, down to the finest details;
• post forward and reverse auctions, including auctions requiring pre-qualifications and escrow services;
• re-list recurring offers/request for offers with just a few clicks;
• track ongoing negotiations and auctions;
• trace your product through all stages of the supply chain to its origin, in line with emerging consumer and government traceability requirements;
• get real-time market information for the type of fish and seafood products sold on Globalfish.net (available Spring 2011).

Globalfish.net’s users include anyone buying or selling fish and seafood products, from the vessel at sea to the retailer:

• Fishing/factory vessels
• Fleet operators
• Aquaculture operators
• Processors
• Traders and brokers
• Distributors, food service
• Retailers

Globalfish.net provides a community based feedback and evaluation system where you may view a member's feedback score and user comments and leave feedback for others.

You may want to use the Trading or Auction Center with Buyers or Sellers and countries of your choosing. With Globalfish.net you can invite your regular trading partners with the added benefit of having access to other Globalfish.net members at anytime.

All the listings that you have created or responded to are displayed on your personalized Watch List page. Your Watch List also displays the following additional information:

• the number of companies in the Globalfish.net database, which buy or sell the same products as you do;
• any invitations you may receive to participate in a Private Trade or Auction;
• reminders to submit documents pertaining to a trade or an auction you are involved in.

With Globalfish.net, you will…

• increase efficiency and lower your purchasing, sales and overall administrative costs
• expand your client base and increase your sourcing opportunities
• find new products
• obtain accurate fish market information in real time
• reduce errors

Use of the Globalfish.net site is free and there are no registration, no listing and no transaction fees. Globalfish.net may, at its sole discretion and at any time,  introduce a transaction and/or membership fee, for part or all of its services.

For more information, go to How to use Globalfish.net

Last updated October 25 2010.