Responsible sourcing.
Why we lead with responsibly farmed fish.
Wild fish stocks are limited — and the lakes closest to our buyers are already under stress. Well-run fish farms in the Mekong Delta give consistent, traceable supply all year, without taking from a shrinking wild fishery. It's the responsible choice, and the reliable one.
- → Consistent size, grade and supply, all year
- → Traceable to its origin, with papers to match
- → No pressure on wild or lake stocks
- → Certified feed, water and welfare standards
- → Only from managed, documented fisheries
- → Catch method disclosed on every shipment
- → Seasonal — we won't promise what the sea can't give
- → Sourced on request for specific menus
The standards our farms answer to.
Independent certification of responsible farming, water quality, feed, disease control and community impact.
Certification for each facility in the chain — hatchery, farm, feed mill and processing plant.
Food-safety controls at the processing plant — the system your auditors expect to see documented.
Official health certificates will travel with every shipment, cleared for import into Ethiopia.
Certification varies by species and farm, and is confirmed for each shipment — ask us for the current documents with your order.
Six things a buyer can hold us to.
Anyone can sell fish. These are the commitments that make NileX a supply line you can build a menu — and a reputation — on.
We choose the farms ourselves in the Mekong Delta — no anonymous brokers in between — with certificates documented at the source.
Cut, size, glaze and packing built to your exact standard, and repeated order after order — the same result every service.
Flash-frozen at harvest and held at −18°C, checked at every step from the Delta to your cold store. The cold never breaks.
Health certificates, origin papers and temperature records will travel with every shipment — the paperwork your auditors expect.
Standing orders on agreed days, planned volumes and honest lead times — so the fish is there when you need it.
Selam in Addis and Ruhama in Vietnam run the whole line between them. One relationship, both ends of the bridge — and no passing the blame.
Taking pressure off water that's already stressed.
Every kilo NileX will import responsibly is a kilo not taken from Ethiopia's lakes at a time when they can least afford it. That is the simple environmental logic behind the whole operation.
We choose species that farm efficiently, work only with farms that manage their water and waste, and always say how and where a fish was raised — so buyers can make their own responsible choices.
We won't claim to be perfect — fish farming and shipping both have a footprint. What we will do is be honest about where every fish comes from and how it got here, and keep choosing the option that leaves the water in better shape.