About Us

HTXH (Direct Fish Supply) is a seafood producer and exporter based in Guangdong, China, with 43 years of operating history in aquaculture and fisheries. We own the farm, the processing line, the cold store and the export paperwork, so farming, processing and shipping stay inside one company.

Most suppliers do one of three jobs - farm the fish, process it, or trade it. HTXH does all three. Five stages - cage farming, harvest, primary processing, freezing and cold storage, and export - are handled in-house, with no third-party trader between the cage and your container.

We export frozen whole fish from Guangdong, China. Freshwater species: tilapia and red pomfret. Seawater species: gilthead seabream, crimson seabream, red seabream, red drum and Miichthys miiuy, the Chinese drum. The two groups are listed separately on our products page.

Most species are raised at our own farm in Raoping, Chaozhou. Frozen whole Miichthys miiuy is wild-caught, and red drum is available farmed or wild-caught. Tell us the species you need and we confirm the source in the quotation.

The cage site sits in open coastal water at Raoping, Chaozhou, Guangdong, China. The processing plant, the cold store and the container loading point share one site at Zhelin Wharf, Raoping County. The sales office is at Room 719, Building A, Tizhi Creative Park, Bao'an District, Shenzhen, Guangdong.

Yes. Every carton carries a lot number and a harvest date, and links back to the cage and the harvest day it came from. Ask for the harvest date and the lot number, and where the fish were processed - the chain of custody is short enough to check.

Live transport keeps fish alive in oxygenated tanks, which means crowding, injury and stress - and the trade relies on anaesthetics and sedatives to control mortality. We do not ship live. Our fish are bled, gutted and frozen at the point of harvest, so nothing in the process requires an anaesthetic.

No. Anaesthetics exist to keep fish alive through transport. Our fish are lifted from the cage, bled and processed on site the same day, so no sedative is part of our process at any stage.

It is one working day. The fish are lifted from the cage, bled, gutted, washed and rapidly chilled on the processing line, then frozen and held at -18 °C or below. The cold chain starts at harvest, not on arrival at the destination.

Individually quick frozen (IQF), or block frozen on request, at -18 °C or below, with a 24-month shelf life. Glazing is 10% or 20% as standard and can be customised, including a 0% ice glaze. Inner packing is a food-grade plastic bag; the outer is a 10 kg net carton. 15 kg and 20 kg cartons, and OEM/ODM branding, are available subject to MOQ.

They are different products, not different grades. A live fish reaches the buyer after its final hours in transport stress. A fish frozen at source is processed on the day it is harvested and stays at -18 °C or below from that point onward.

Purging means holding farmed fish in clean flowing water without feed for days to weeks, so they metabolise feed residue and off-flavour compounds such as geosmin and 2-MIB. It is a corrective step for enclosed ponds and tank systems, where organic matter accumulates. Our fish grow in open sea cages with continuous water exchange, so no post-harvest holding period is applied.

No, and any supplier who guarantees that is overstating. It means the conditions that concentrate these compounds in enclosed systems are not present, and the corrective step those systems depend on is not part of our chain.

Purging addresses off-flavour compounds and gut contents. It is not a decontamination step and should not be presented as one - it does not remove antibiotics or heavy metals. Its role is sensory and metabolic.

MOQ depends on the species. Frozen whole tilapia starts at 20 metric tons (MT) per order. Customised glazing, size grading and packaging are subject to MOQ - send us the species and the destination port and we confirm the MOQ in writing.

20% T/T in advance, with the balance against a copy of the Bill of Lading.

Both FOB and CIF. We load from major Chinese ports including Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou, and there are weekly sailings from Zhelin Port, Chaozhou. Our main markets are Europe, Africa and South East Asia.

Production runs 15-20 days after we receive the deposit, depending on order quantity and the production schedule. Export clearance is handled in-house, and customs clearance is AEO-certified for the EU, Africa, Japan, Korea and ASEAN.

Send the species, size grade, packing, quantity and destination port to Richeal (Business Director) or Sam (Supply Chain Director) - Tel, WhatsApp, WeChat or email, all listed on our Contact page. Specs, sizes, packing and FOB / CIF prices come back within 24 hours.