The seafood of Mauritania.
From pot-caught octopus to deep-water rose shrimp: every species below comes from Mauritanian waters and is available through PROFUNDOR. Frozen, fresh or live, and packed to your specification.
Octopus
Octopus vulgaris
Frozen · Fresh
Cuttlefish
Sepia officinalis
Frozen · Fresh
European squid
Loligo vulgaris
Frozen · Fresh
Image in preparationEuropean flying squid
Todarodes sagittatus · Illex coindetii
Frozen
Pink spiny lobster
Palinurus mauritanicus
Live · Frozen
Pink shrimp
Penaeus notialis · P. kerathurus
Frozen · Fresh
Deep-water rose shrimp
Parapenaeus longirostris
Frozen
Slipper lobster
Scyllarides latus
Fresh · Live · Frozen
Image in preparationWest African geryon (deep-sea red crab)
Chaceon maritae
Frozen
Image in preparationPig's snout volute (cymbium)
Cymbium cymbium · C. pepo
Frozen
White grouper
Epinephelus aeneus
Fresh · Frozen
Dusky grouper
Epinephelus marginatus
Fresh · Frozen
Meagre
Argyrosomus regius
Fresh · Frozen
Senegalese sole
Solea senegalensis
Fresh · Frozen
Red porgy
Pagrus pagrus
Fresh · Frozen
Bluespotted seabream
Pagrus caeruleostictus
Fresh · Frozen
Redbanded seabream
Pagrus auriga
Fresh · Frozen
Canary dentex
Dentex canariensis
Fresh · Frozen
Common dentex
Dentex dentex
Fresh · Frozen
White seabream
Diplodus sargus
Fresh · Frozen
Spotted seabass
Dicentrarchus punctatus
Fresh · Frozen
Rubberlip grunt
Plectorhinchus mediterraneus
Fresh · Frozen
Cassava croaker
Pseudotolithus senegalensis
Frozen · Fresh
John dory
Zeus faber
Frozen · Fresh
Blackbellied angler (monkfish)
Lophius budegassa
Frozen · Fresh
Sand steenbras
Lithognathus mormyrus
Fresh · Frozen
Bastard grunt
Pomadasys incisus
Fresh · Frozen
Grey mullet (and bottarga)
Mugil cephalus · M. capurrii
Fresh · Frozen
Wedge sole
Dicologlossa cuneata
Frozen · Fresh
Guinean sole
Synaptura lusitanica
Frozen · Fresh
Channel flounder
Syacium micrurum
Frozen
Spottail spiny turbot
Psettodes belcheri
Frozen · Fresh
Gilthead seabream
Sparus aurata
Fresh · Frozen
Black seabream
Spondyliosoma cantharus
Fresh · Frozen
Large-eye dentex
Dentex macrophthalmus
Fresh · Frozen
Goldblotch grouper
Epinephelus costae
Fresh · Frozen
Black hake
Merluccius senegalensis · M. polli
Frozen · Fresh
Bearded brotula
Brotula barbata
Frozen · Fresh
European conger
Conger conger
Frozen · Fresh
Scorpionfish
Scorpaena spp. (S. elongata · S. stephanica)
Frozen · Fresh
Blackbelly rosefish
Helicolenus dactylopterus
Frozen · Fresh
Image in preparationWest African goatfish
Pseudupeneus prayensis
Frozen · Fresh
Image in preparationRays (undulate and brown ray)
Raja undulata · R. miraletus
Frozen · Fresh
Round sardinella
Sardinella aurita
Frozen
Madeiran sardinella
Sardinella maderensis
Frozen
Horse mackerel
Trachurus trecae · T. trachurus
Frozen
Chub mackerel
Scomber colias
Frozen
European pilchard
Sardina pilchardus
Frozen
Image in preparationGreater amberjack
Seriola dumerili (and Seriola spp.)
Fresh · Frozen
Image in preparationBlue butterfish
Stromateus fiatola
Frozen · Fresh
Image in preparationLargehead hairtail
Trichiurus lepturus
Frozen
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From the plant to your container.
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Caught off Mauritania
Trawlers and artisanal boats fish the rich shelf off Nouadhibou and Nouakchott.
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Landed and sorted
The catch goes straight onto the line in an approved plant and is sorted by species.
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Graded by size
Every lot is graded by hand into the size classes you ordered.
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Checked against your spec
We check the grade with our own eyes before loading: size, glaze, packing, labels.
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Frozen and stored
Plate- or blast-frozen, packed in master cartons and held at −25 °C until your container is loaded.
Illustrative images of a typical Mauritanian processing plant.