SafeFish
SafeFish, provides technical advice to support Australia’s seafood trade and market access negotiations and helps to resolve barriers to trade.
SafeFish is primarily funded by the Fisheries Research & Development Corporation (FRDC) on behalf of the Australian Government and is the leading platform in their program for dealing with food safety and trade and market access issues affecting Australian seafood.
Technical Program
The technical program is underpinned by a strategy to identify current and emerging food safety and market access issues, prioritise these issues, and undertake technical work to provide potential solutions to overcome those of highest priority. This is known as the SafeFish prioritisation process and is used as a robust method of determining the work program.
Current Technical Research
Following the 2026 hazard identification and prioritisation process, the following issues were identified as having the highest priority to the Australian seafood industry and will receive technical funding from SafeFish to progress research in the space:
- Ciguatera
- Emerging biotoxins in novel seafood
- Vibrio species in seafood.
Click here to understand more about our current technical research projects.
Latest Content
The latest collection of SafeFish technical reports, communication outputs, news and articles can be found here.
Australian and New Zealand Marine HAB Network
A new network to facilitate Australian and New Zealand information gathering and sharing on marine harmful algal blooms has been developed. It will promote and disseminate information on training opportunities, conferences, workshops, relevant Australian and international research advances and more. Membership of the network is open to all interested parties. To register your interest in joining the ANZ Marine HAB network please go to: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SMPPKYB. A capability workshop will also be held on molecular identification of Marine harmful algae in from 1-5 Dec 2025 at UTS.
