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Aegean Blue Crab

Wild-caught Aegean blue crab offering sweet, tender, high-protein white claw meat.

Wild-caught from sustainable fisheries
Sweet, high-quality white meat
Available in live and frozen formats
Export-grade quality with international standards
Suitable for wholesale, HORECA and processing markets

Lab Certified & SPF Verified B2B Volume Pricing

Aegean Blue Crab — Full Description

Elite Callinectes sapidus hand-harvested from Aegean coastal lagoons. Shipped live or pasteurized cup-packs under cold chain for fine-dining appetizers.

Blue crab is a wild-caught fishery product rather than a farmed one, and that shapes everything about how it trades: volumes follow the catch, grading follows what comes aboard, and the premium sits with the sweet white body meat rather than with size alone.

VARS supplies it live, fresh-frozen and boiled-frozen. Live product is held chilled at 0–4 °C, frozen at −18 °C, and the format decides the route — live and chilled move by air because hours matter, frozen by reefer container because it does not. At 90 kcal and 19 g of protein per 100 g it is lean, and it is bought for flavour rather than for yield.

The main destinations are foodservice and processing, where boiled-frozen product goes straight into picking lines. Every consignment carries its health certificate, certificate of analysis and certificate of origin, and traces back to the catch and the processing facility — which is what makes the health certificate mean anything.

Key Technical Specifications

StandardsFarms certified to ASC / GlobalG.A.P

FormatsLive · Fresh-frozen · Boiled-frozen

SFA0.3 g

Salt0.25 g

LogisticsFresh delivery to EMEA & North America

Packaging6 kg and 10 kg EPS (expanded polystyrene) units

General Nutritional Reference

Energy

90 kcal

Protein

19 g

PUFA

0.4 g

MUFA

0.3 g

These figures are general nutritional reference values published for this species, not a laboratory analysis of our specific product batches. Actual nutritional content can vary by catch, season, and processing method — contact us for a certificate of analysis on a specific shipment.

Key Applications

HORECA / restaurant
Processing
Wholesale distribution

Storage & Logistics

Live product chilled at 0–4 °C; frozen products at −18 °C.

Cold-Chain Temperature

2 °C – 6 °C (Live) / −18 °C (Frozen)

Logistics Mode

Air Freight & Temperature-Logged Containers

Documentation

TRACES / CoA / Origin Certificate

Delivery options

Air freight for live and urgent orders
Sea freight for frozen bulk shipments
Custom logistics per destination

Why buyers choose this line

Wild-caught from sustainable fisheries

Harvested rather than farmed, from fisheries managed for continuity of supply.

Sweet, tender white meat

Naturally sweet flavour with a tender, juicy texture — the reason it holds its place in premium seafood dishes.

Live and frozen formats

Live, fresh-frozen and boiled-frozen, handled under strict quality control to preserve freshness, texture and taste.

Takes every cooking method

Steaming, boiling, frying and prepared dishes all work from the same supply.

Product Info & FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

Technical parameters, storage, biosecurity, and hatchery protocols for Aegean Blue Crab.

It depends on the product. Typical MOQs are 50,000 for salmon eggs, 1 carton for live feed and 500 kg for seafood. Feed ingredients such as fish meal and vital wheat gluten move in full-pallet or container lots, and we will confirm the exact minimum for your item with the quotation.

Yes — every shipment is monitored with temperature loggers and a report is shared with you. Chilled seafood and eyed ova move in insulated, temperature-controlled packaging, and the logger record travels with the consignment so the receiving side can verify the whole journey rather than trust a claim.

Yes. Technical specification sheets and laboratory analysis reports are provided on quotation, and the CoA for the specific batch allocated to you is issued before shipment. If a parameter in your own specification is not on our standard analysis, tell us at quotation stage and we will confirm whether it can be tested for that batch.

The importer does — permits for live aquatic animals and fertilized ova are issued by the destination country's competent authority to a party established there. We supply everything the application needs from the origin side: hatchery approval details, health status, species and consignment specification.

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Cold-Chain Preservation & HORECA Supply

Explore 52-week continuous harvest cycles, ASC & GlobalG.A.P certified farms, and temperature-logged fresh/frozen delivery for Blue Crab.

Fresh Storage Temp

0 °C – 2 °C

Deep Freeze Standard

−18 °C

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