Seafood licences

Licence requirements and conditions

Licence requirements and conditions depend on the type of seafood business you operate.

Find information specific to your business:

• Seafood processing facility - licences for seafood wholesale, seafood processor, and seafood further processor businesses.
• Seafood retailer - licences for businesses that retail seafood from a facility, a vehicle or a boat.
• Aquaculture - licences for businesses that grow and harvest seafood.
• Wildcatch - general, crustacean and noxious fish licences for businesses that harvest wildcatch.
• Meat and seafood transport vehicles.

Products and processes that require additional approval from Safe Food Victoria.

• foods processed by cooking, curing, salting, drying and/or fermenting. For example, dried fish, dried fish jerky, salt cod and smoked salmon.
• alternative techniques and new technologies. For example, cold smoking or high-pressure processing.