Global Canned Tuna and Sardines Market Growth 2026-2032
Description
The global Canned Tuna and Sardines market size is predicted to grow from US$ 14185 million in 2025 to US$ 17401 million in 2032; it is expected to grow at a CAGR of 3.1% from 2026 to 2032.
Canned tuna and canned sardines are shelf-stable seafood products made primarily from tuna species (e.g., skipjack, yellowfin, albacore) and sardines through cleaning and trimming, precooking/steaming, portioning into standardized forms (whole fish, chunks, fillets, or flakes), filling with packing media such as brine, water, vegetable oil, olive oil, tomato sauce, or seasoned sauces, and subsequent hermetic sealing and retort sterilization to achieve commercial sterility for ambient storage. The category is valued for high-protein nutrition, long shelf life, portability, and broad meal compatibility, serving household quick meals, salads and sandwiches, outdoor consumption and emergency stocking, as well as foodservice kitchens and ready-meal manufacturing; global supply is concentrated in countries with access to pelagic fishing resources and large-scale canning infrastructure, and is materially influenced by seasonality, quotas, food safety regulations, and sustainability/traceability requirements.
In 2025, global canned tuna and sardines production (finished product basis) reached approximately 3.2–4.2 million metric tons, anchored by the scale of internationally traded canned and prepared fish (HS 1604) and the continued expansion of tuna trade volumes reported by FAO GLOBEFISH. FOB prices vary significantly by species, packing medium, and pack size;Averange price range is USD 3,200–6,560 per ton for canned tuna and USD 1,940–4,830 per ton for canned sardines, consistent with prevailing global export and import price bands.
Market Development Opportunities & Main Driving Factors
As global diets shift toward “high-protein with minimal cooking effort,” canned tuna and sardines benefit from healthier eating habits, salad-based light meals, and routine home meal-prep—amplified by the expansion of e-commerce and membership retail, where standardized, ambient-stable seafood scales efficiently across regions. In parallel, traceability, carbon awareness, and fishery certifications are moving from “nice-to-have” to “must-have,” enabling suppliers with resilient sourcing and compliance capabilities to capture premiumization and channel share.
Market Challenges, Risks, & Restraints
The most material risks concentrate upstream in resources and costs: fishing quotas, seasonality, and operational uncertainty at sea can magnify raw material volatility; swings in raw fish prices, can-making inputs, edible oils, FX, and freight costs can rapidly compress margins. Meanwhile, tightening food safety and labeling compliance (allergens, nutrition/health claims, origin and traceability disclosures) in major importing markets raises the penalty for opaque supply chains, directly impacting order stability and brand reputation.
Downstream Demand Trends
Demand is upgrading from “basic pantry cans” to “occasion-led and flavor-led” consumption: tuna increasingly emphasizes lean protein, ready-to-eat convenience, and compatibility with salads/sandwiches, while sardines continue to diversify into tomato/spiced/olive-oil profiles and extend toward smaller portable packs and premium oil-packed lines. Foodservice buyers prioritize consistent specifications and kitchen efficiency, accelerating adoption of pre-seasoned and portion-controlled formats with improved opening/handling experience. Retailers, in turn, place growing weight on certification-backed credibility and cleaner formulations, supporting a structurally higher share of mid-to-premium products.
LP Information, Inc. (LPI) ' newest research report, the “Canned Tuna and Sardines Industry Forecast” looks at past sales and reviews total world Canned Tuna and Sardines sales in 2025, providing a comprehensive analysis by region and market sector of projected Canned Tuna and Sardines sales for 2026 through 2032. With Canned Tuna and Sardines sales broken down by region, market sector and sub-sector, this report provides a detailed analysis in US$ millions of the world Canned Tuna and Sardines industry.
This Insight Report provides a comprehensive analysis of the global Canned Tuna and Sardines landscape and highlights key trends related to product segmentation, company formation, revenue, and market share, latest development, and M&A activity. This report also analyzes the strategies of leading global companies with a focus on Canned Tuna and Sardines portfolios and capabilities, market entry strategies, market positions, and geographic footprints, to better understand these firms’ unique position in an accelerating global Canned Tuna and Sardines market.
This Insight Report evaluates the key market trends, drivers, and affecting factors shaping the global outlook for Canned Tuna and Sardines and breaks down the forecast by Type, by Application, geography, and market size to highlight emerging pockets of opportunity. With a transparent methodology based on hundreds of bottom-up qualitative and quantitative market inputs, this study forecast offers a highly nuanced view of the current state and future trajectory in the global Canned Tuna and Sardines.
This report presents a comprehensive overview, market shares, and growth opportunities of Canned Tuna and Sardines market by product type, application, key manufacturers and key regions and countries.
Segmentation by Type:
Tuna
Sardines
Segmentation by Product Form:
Solid
Chunks
Fillets
Others
Segmentation by Packing Medium:
In Oil
In Brine
In Tomato Sauce
Others
Segmentation by Flavor:
Plain
Spicy
Others
Segmentation by Application:
Restaurant and Catering
Household Consumption
Others
This report also splits the market by region:
Americas
United States
Canada
Mexico
Brazil
APAC
China
Japan
Korea
Southeast Asia
India
Australia
Europe
Germany
France
UK
Italy
Russia
Middle East & Africa
Egypt
South Africa
Israel
Turkey
GCC Countries
The below companies that are profiled have been selected based on inputs gathered from primary experts and analysing the company's coverage, product portfolio, its market penetration.
Dongwon Industries Co., Ltd.
Thai Union Group PCL
Century Pacific Food, Inc.
Bolton Group
Nauterra
Frinsa Group (Frinsa del Noroeste, S.A.)
Hagoromo Foods Corporation
Jealsa Foods SAU
COFACO – Companhia de Fish Canning
Ramirez & Cia (Filhos), S.A.
Dardanel Örentaş Gıda Sanayi A.Ş.
Unimer Group
Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd. (Nissui)
Zhejiang Retronx Foodstuff Industry Co., Ltd.
Ningbo Today Food Co., Ltd.
Rongcheng Haizhirun Seafood Foods Co., Ltd.
Fujian Xingguang Food Co., Ltd.
Shandong Oceanic Fisheries Corporation, Ltd. (ZOFCO)
Guangdong Eagle Coin Haibao Food Co., Ltd.
Zhangzhou Gangchang Canned Food Co., Ltd.
Ocean Family (Zhejiang) Co., Ltd.
Key Questions Addressed in this Report
What is the 10-year outlook for the global Canned Tuna and Sardines market?
What factors are driving Canned Tuna and Sardines market growth, globally and by region?
Which technologies are poised for the fastest growth by market and region?
How do Canned Tuna and Sardines market opportunities vary by end market size?
How does Canned Tuna and Sardines break out by Type, by Application?
Please note: The report will take approximately 2 business days to prepare and deliver.
Canned tuna and canned sardines are shelf-stable seafood products made primarily from tuna species (e.g., skipjack, yellowfin, albacore) and sardines through cleaning and trimming, precooking/steaming, portioning into standardized forms (whole fish, chunks, fillets, or flakes), filling with packing media such as brine, water, vegetable oil, olive oil, tomato sauce, or seasoned sauces, and subsequent hermetic sealing and retort sterilization to achieve commercial sterility for ambient storage. The category is valued for high-protein nutrition, long shelf life, portability, and broad meal compatibility, serving household quick meals, salads and sandwiches, outdoor consumption and emergency stocking, as well as foodservice kitchens and ready-meal manufacturing; global supply is concentrated in countries with access to pelagic fishing resources and large-scale canning infrastructure, and is materially influenced by seasonality, quotas, food safety regulations, and sustainability/traceability requirements.
In 2025, global canned tuna and sardines production (finished product basis) reached approximately 3.2–4.2 million metric tons, anchored by the scale of internationally traded canned and prepared fish (HS 1604) and the continued expansion of tuna trade volumes reported by FAO GLOBEFISH. FOB prices vary significantly by species, packing medium, and pack size;Averange price range is USD 3,200–6,560 per ton for canned tuna and USD 1,940–4,830 per ton for canned sardines, consistent with prevailing global export and import price bands.
Market Development Opportunities & Main Driving Factors
As global diets shift toward “high-protein with minimal cooking effort,” canned tuna and sardines benefit from healthier eating habits, salad-based light meals, and routine home meal-prep—amplified by the expansion of e-commerce and membership retail, where standardized, ambient-stable seafood scales efficiently across regions. In parallel, traceability, carbon awareness, and fishery certifications are moving from “nice-to-have” to “must-have,” enabling suppliers with resilient sourcing and compliance capabilities to capture premiumization and channel share.
Market Challenges, Risks, & Restraints
The most material risks concentrate upstream in resources and costs: fishing quotas, seasonality, and operational uncertainty at sea can magnify raw material volatility; swings in raw fish prices, can-making inputs, edible oils, FX, and freight costs can rapidly compress margins. Meanwhile, tightening food safety and labeling compliance (allergens, nutrition/health claims, origin and traceability disclosures) in major importing markets raises the penalty for opaque supply chains, directly impacting order stability and brand reputation.
Downstream Demand Trends
Demand is upgrading from “basic pantry cans” to “occasion-led and flavor-led” consumption: tuna increasingly emphasizes lean protein, ready-to-eat convenience, and compatibility with salads/sandwiches, while sardines continue to diversify into tomato/spiced/olive-oil profiles and extend toward smaller portable packs and premium oil-packed lines. Foodservice buyers prioritize consistent specifications and kitchen efficiency, accelerating adoption of pre-seasoned and portion-controlled formats with improved opening/handling experience. Retailers, in turn, place growing weight on certification-backed credibility and cleaner formulations, supporting a structurally higher share of mid-to-premium products.
LP Information, Inc. (LPI) ' newest research report, the “Canned Tuna and Sardines Industry Forecast” looks at past sales and reviews total world Canned Tuna and Sardines sales in 2025, providing a comprehensive analysis by region and market sector of projected Canned Tuna and Sardines sales for 2026 through 2032. With Canned Tuna and Sardines sales broken down by region, market sector and sub-sector, this report provides a detailed analysis in US$ millions of the world Canned Tuna and Sardines industry.
This Insight Report provides a comprehensive analysis of the global Canned Tuna and Sardines landscape and highlights key trends related to product segmentation, company formation, revenue, and market share, latest development, and M&A activity. This report also analyzes the strategies of leading global companies with a focus on Canned Tuna and Sardines portfolios and capabilities, market entry strategies, market positions, and geographic footprints, to better understand these firms’ unique position in an accelerating global Canned Tuna and Sardines market.
This Insight Report evaluates the key market trends, drivers, and affecting factors shaping the global outlook for Canned Tuna and Sardines and breaks down the forecast by Type, by Application, geography, and market size to highlight emerging pockets of opportunity. With a transparent methodology based on hundreds of bottom-up qualitative and quantitative market inputs, this study forecast offers a highly nuanced view of the current state and future trajectory in the global Canned Tuna and Sardines.
This report presents a comprehensive overview, market shares, and growth opportunities of Canned Tuna and Sardines market by product type, application, key manufacturers and key regions and countries.
Segmentation by Type:
Tuna
Sardines
Segmentation by Product Form:
Solid
Chunks
Fillets
Others
Segmentation by Packing Medium:
In Oil
In Brine
In Tomato Sauce
Others
Segmentation by Flavor:
Plain
Spicy
Others
Segmentation by Application:
Restaurant and Catering
Household Consumption
Others
This report also splits the market by region:
Americas
United States
Canada
Mexico
Brazil
APAC
China
Japan
Korea
Southeast Asia
India
Australia
Europe
Germany
France
UK
Italy
Russia
Middle East & Africa
Egypt
South Africa
Israel
Turkey
GCC Countries
The below companies that are profiled have been selected based on inputs gathered from primary experts and analysing the company's coverage, product portfolio, its market penetration.
Dongwon Industries Co., Ltd.
Thai Union Group PCL
Century Pacific Food, Inc.
Bolton Group
Nauterra
Frinsa Group (Frinsa del Noroeste, S.A.)
Hagoromo Foods Corporation
Jealsa Foods SAU
COFACO – Companhia de Fish Canning
Ramirez & Cia (Filhos), S.A.
Dardanel Örentaş Gıda Sanayi A.Ş.
Unimer Group
Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd. (Nissui)
Zhejiang Retronx Foodstuff Industry Co., Ltd.
Ningbo Today Food Co., Ltd.
Rongcheng Haizhirun Seafood Foods Co., Ltd.
Fujian Xingguang Food Co., Ltd.
Shandong Oceanic Fisheries Corporation, Ltd. (ZOFCO)
Guangdong Eagle Coin Haibao Food Co., Ltd.
Zhangzhou Gangchang Canned Food Co., Ltd.
Ocean Family (Zhejiang) Co., Ltd.
Key Questions Addressed in this Report
What is the 10-year outlook for the global Canned Tuna and Sardines market?
What factors are driving Canned Tuna and Sardines market growth, globally and by region?
Which technologies are poised for the fastest growth by market and region?
How do Canned Tuna and Sardines market opportunities vary by end market size?
How does Canned Tuna and Sardines break out by Type, by Application?
Please note: The report will take approximately 2 business days to prepare and deliver.
Table of Contents
164 Pages
- *This is a tentative TOC and the final deliverable is subject to change.*
- 1 Scope of the Report
- 2 Executive Summary
- 3 Global by Company
- 4 World Historic Review for Canned Tuna and Sardines by Geographic Region
- 5 Americas
- 6 APAC
- 7 Europe
- 8 Middle East & Africa
- 9 Market Drivers, Challenges and Trends
- 10 Manufacturing Cost Structure Analysis
- 11 Marketing, Distributors and Customer
- 12 World Forecast Review for Canned Tuna and Sardines by Geographic Region
- 13 Key Players Analysis
- 14 Research Findings and Conclusion
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