Spread the cost of a fish grader from £8,000 to £80,000 with flexible finance options. HP, lease, or refinance
Yes, fish graders are financed as a standard asset purchase, usually on hire purchase or a lease, with the machine itself acting as the security. UK prices typically run £8,000 to £80,000, and most deals are written over 24–72 months with a deposit of around 10–20%. Decisions typically take 3–5 working days. Used machines are financeable too, usually with a shorter term.
Typical Cost
£8k – £80k
Approval Speed
3–5 working days
Faster for like-for-like replacements
Rates From
4.5% APR
Your estimate
Indicative only. Not a quote and not an offer of finance.
Pre-filled with a typical fish grader price. Indicative only, not a quote.
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For UK limited companies with 3+ months’ trading and monthly revenue.
On a purchase price of £25,000: a 10% deposit of £2,500, then 48 monthly payments of £527 at 5.9% APR representative (fixed). Total amount payable £27,796, including the deposit. The rate you are offered depends on your business and the asset.
Guide prices for sizing a finance agreement, not quotes. Manufacturers in this market mostly price on application, so where a current UK list price could not be confirmed the row describes a specification class rather than naming a model. Your supplier quote is what the agreement is written against.
| Machine or specification | Guide price | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Manual Bar Grader (small site class) | £8,000 – £18,000 | Bar Grader |
| Automated Roller Grader (mid-scale site class) | £20,000 – £40,000 | Roller Grader |
| Smart Camera Grading System (vision-based sizing class) | £35,000 – £60,000 | Vision Grader |
| High-Throughput Drum Grader (large site class) | £50,000 – £80,000 | Drum Grader |
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Fish graders are moveable plant and generally qualify for the Annual Investment Allowance (AIA), letting an operator deduct the full cost from taxable profits in the year of purchase, up to £1,000,000, subject to the normal AIA rules. HP gives access to capital allowances directly; lease payments are normally deductible from profits. Because a grader is deployed at a specific site but remains a freestanding, transportable unit rather than a fixture, it is treated as ordinary plant even where it stays at one site for its whole working life.
Fish graders are bought by salmon, trout and other finfish farms operating under a site licence from the relevant marine and environmental authorities, and it is that licence, setting the stock the site is permitted to hold, rather than the grading equipment itself, that is usually the binding constraint on how much a farm can produce. Grading equipment is used to sort stock by size for feeding, transfer and harvest, and specification is chosen to match a site's throughput and species. Because equipment on a marine or brackish site is exposed to a corrosive saltwater environment, working life is generally shorter than for comparable land-based farm equipment, and replacement is driven mainly by corrosion and mechanical wear rather than a fixed age. A specialist used market exists through equipment dealers serving the aquaculture sector, who recondition and re-certify graders removed during a site upgrade.
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