Grade you can trust
What we quote is what lands on your table. If a lot doesn't make the grade, we tell you before the truck leaves — not after you've opened the box.
Seafood Trading · Sri Lanka
From the boats of Jaffna to your counter.
Metaglobe Trading buys sea crabs, cuttlefish and a wide range of fish direct from Jaffna's fishing communities, and moves it — cold, quickly and honestly — to wholesale and retail buyers right across Sri Lanka.
Nine years in the trade
Direct from Jaffna landings
Wholesale & retail supply
Member, Sri Lanka–Canada Business Council
Who we are
A trading house built on one simple promise — the fish arrives the way it left the boat.
Metaglobe Trading (Pvt) Ltd has spent nine years buying and moving Sri Lankan seafood, working out of Chilaw. We sit at the point where the catch changes hands: buying at the Jaffna landings, holding it cold, and delivering it to hotels, processors, wholesale markets and retail outlets around the country.
The margin in seafood is made or lost in the first few hours. Not in the pricing, not in the paperwork — in the gap between a fish coming off the boat and that fish getting cold. Everything we do is arranged around closing that gap: grading on the beach rather than back at a depot, ice going on before the price is finished being argued over, and a vehicle that actually leaves when it said it would.
None of that is clever. It is just the part of the job most people quietly skip when they are busy, and it is the reason two consignments of the same fish, landed on the same morning, can be worth very different money by the afternoon.
What we trade
Sea crab, cuttlefish, and the fish Jaffna is known for.
Our range follows the season and the sea. What the northern boats land in a given week depends on the weather, the swell and which grounds the fleet can safely reach — so this is a list of what we buy in volume, not a promise that every line is sitting in the box today.
Four families cover almost everything that moves through us: crustaceans, cephalopods, pelagics and reef fish. They suit very different buyers. A hotel wants graded crab and clean cuttlefish in small, reliable quantities. A market trader wants volume pelagics at a price that still works after transport. A processor wants the same size band arriving every week. Tell us which one you are and the conversation gets a great deal shorter.
Crustacean
Sea Crab
Graded live by size and condition, banded and packed for same-day movement.
Cephalopod
Cuttlefish & Squid
Whole or cleaned, iced immediately at landing to hold colour and texture.
Finfish
Jaffna Reef Fish
Snapper, trevally, emperor, mullet and the rest of the northern reef mix.
Pelagic
Seer, Tuna & Sardine
Volume lines for wholesale markets, processors and institutional kitchens.
The range
Fifteen named lines, four families.
Not a catalogue of everything in the ocean — a list of what we actually buy, week in and week out, and can talk to you about with a straight face.
Availability moves with the season and the weather. Some weeks a species simply is not landed, and we will tell you that rather than substitute it.
Crustaceans
5
Pelagics
4
Reef & bottom fish
4
Cephalopods
2
Counted from the product range. Farm prawns are the one pond-raised line; everything else is wild caught.
How we work
Four steps between the sea and the sale.
No part of this is complicated. It just has to be done properly, every single day, by people who are actually standing there when the boats come in.
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Step 01
Buy at the landing
Our buyers work directly with boat owners and fishing societies in the Jaffna district — no chain of middlemen inflating the price or burning the clock.
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Step 02
Grade and ice on the spot
Sorted by species, size and condition at the beach, then iced immediately. Crab is banded and kept live; cuttlefish goes straight onto ice.
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Step 03
Move it cold
Insulated boxes and chilled transport down to our Chilaw base, with the cold chain held unbroken from the beach to the buyer's door.
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Step 04
Deliver and settle
Wholesale lots or retail packs, delivered against an agreed grade and price. Clear weights, clear invoices, payment terms you can plan around.
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Layers between us and the boat — we buy at the landing
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Species handled across the season
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Trading Sri Lankan seafood
2025
Joined the Sri Lanka–Canada Business Council
Why buyers stay
Trade is a promise that keeps getting tested.
Cold chain, not cold comfort
Iced at the beach, moved chilled, delivered chilled. The freshness argument is won in the first three hours, and we treat it that way.
Straight pricing
One price, quoted per kilo, per grade. No surprise loading, no shifting weights, no charges that appear at settlement.
Island-wide reach
From Chilaw we serve buyers in Colombo, the north-west and beyond, with routes built around your delivery windows rather than ours.
Fishermen we know by name
Our relationships in the north are with the boats themselves. That is why we get first call on the good lots when supply is tight.
Built for export next
We are working towards taking Sri Lankan seafood to overseas buyers, and building the paperwork and process discipline for it now.
The next chapter
Sri Lankan seafood, headed further than the local market.
Metaglobe is preparing to move from domestic trading into export. The catch is already world class; what an export buyer needs on top of that is consistency, documentation and a supplier who answers the phone. We are building all three before we make promises about volumes.
Our membership of the Sri Lanka–Canada Business Council, granted in 2025, is part of that groundwork.
Leadership
“In this trade your name travels faster than your truck.”
Metaglobe was set up on the belief that Sri Lanka's seafood deserves a trading partner who is straight with both ends of the chain — fair to the fisherman who landed it and honest with the buyer who pays for it.
That is the whole strategy. Keep the quality where it should be, keep the pricing transparent, and let the repeat orders do the marketing.
Sumsudeen Farsan Mohomed
Managing Director, Metaglobe Trading (Pvt) Ltd
Let's trade
Tell us what you need and how often you need it.
Send us the species, the grade and the weekly volume. We will come back with an honest price and an honest lead time — including when we can't supply.