Shanghai Customs ensures the safe and efficient entry of high-quality fish eggs during the 'spring plowing on water' season

Spring returns with warm water, ushering in a golden season for the introduction and breeding of aquatic products. On April 1st, 275000 fertilized eggs of Atlantic salmon from Iceland crossed mountains and seas and arrived at Shanghai Pudong International Airport. The Shanghai Pudong International Airport Customs, under the jurisdiction of Shanghai Customs, completed customs clearance and release as soon as possible, ensuring the safe and efficient entry of core genetic resources of cold water fish. After entering the country, this batch of fish eggs will be mainly transported to the land-based aquaculture base of Nordik Aquatic Products (Ningbo) Co., Ltd. for large-scale breeding and local aquaculture.

With the continuous increase in domestic demand for Atlantic salmon consumption, land-based circular aquaculture has entered a stage of large-scale acceleration. High quality fish eggs play an important role in improving the quality of domestic seedlings and promoting industrial improvement and efficiency. According to Shanghai Customs data, the import volume of Atlantic salmon fertilized eggs at Pudong Airport port will increase by nearly 50% year-on-year in 2025. As a high-value and fresh special aquatic seedling, Atlantic salmon fertilized eggs have strict requirements for transportation time and temperature control throughout the process. Temperature fluctuations and transportation time affect the hatching and survival rate of fish eggs. The industry urgently needs efficient customs clearance and full cold chain supervision.

Shanghai Pudong International Airport Customs regards safeguarding people's livelihood needs and supporting industrial development as the starting point and foothold for establishing and practicing the correct political performance concept learning and education. They adhere to the principle of balancing efficiency and safety, and parallel supervision and service, fully ensuring the efficient entry of fish and eggs, and ensuring that breeding and farming are not delayed. Proactively connect with import enterprises, tailor personalized customs clearance solutions based on "one product, one enterprise, one policy", establish a "7 × 24 hour" document review and cross departmental collaboration mechanism, open a dedicated fast track for fresh aquatic seedlings, closely monitor the cold chain temperature control process throughout the process, and achieve immediate reporting, review, inspection, and release. To ensure the smooth entry of fish eggs, we have identified transportation nodes in advance and provided 'face-to-face' standardized declaration guidance to enterprises around declaration error prone points such as planting, consumption, regulatory categories, and port inspection and quarantine requirements, helping enterprises to accurately and efficiently complete declarations, "said Gong Huanhuan, head of the second section of the Customs Comprehensive Business Department at Shanghai Pudong International Airport.

Inside the inspection site, as the dedicated cold chain transport vehicle is parked in place, boxes of fish eggs are unloaded from the vehicle. The customs officer immediately checks the quarantine permit and the official quarantine certificate of the exporting country to ensure that the relevant information such as the name and place of origin of the goods is accurate and correct. The unpacking inspection process is particularly meticulous. The customs officer holds a thermometer and scans the temperature of the fish egg packaging bag one by one, closely observing the color and fullness of the fish eggs, checking whether the packaging water and bedding materials carry harmful organisms. The entire inspection process is temperature controlled and efficiently connected throughout the entire chain.

Nordik Aquatic Products (Ningbo) Co., Ltd. is currently in a critical period of capacity expansion. The company's general manager, Tong Anrui, said, "The import of fish eggs can be said to be a race against time, and the convenience measures taken by the customs have given us a 'reassurance pill'.

Since 2026, the customs at Shanghai Pudong International Airport have cumulatively supervised the import of salmon roe worth 2.2 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 20%. The total import value of various types of seedlings has exceeded 10 million yuan, injecting strong momentum into improving the quality of domestic seedlings, promoting the improvement and efficiency of fisheries, assisting rural revitalization and the development of characteristic fisheries.