Blue Tide Seafoods supplies consistent, certified, fully traceable farmed prawns to Australian wholesalers, distributors and foodservice — backed by 25 years of farming and processing through a growing global network of partners, currently spanning India and Vietnam.
Blue Tide Seafoods is the Australian door into a farming, processing and export supply line more than 25 years in the making. We don't run the ponds or the freezer lines ourselves — our partner network does, across facilities purpose-built for one job: getting prawns from water to cold chain without a single link breaking.
It started with feed and farmer training, not freezers. Our partner network's roots go back to the early 2000s, working directly with local shrimp farmers on stocking density, disease management and pond health — long before the first container ever shipped. That groundwork built the trust and volume needed to move into export a decade later, and eventually into owning the processing side outright.
Today that network runs multiple certified processing facilities, all sited within dedicated seafood-processing precincts, all exporting to the USA, UK, Canada, Europe and Asia. Blue Tide taps directly into that capacity to bring the same grade, the same paperwork and the same cold chain to Australian wholesalers — just without the extra hands in between.
Our mission is simple: process and land seafood that's safe, sustainably sourced and fully traceable, and keep improving the systems — and the farmers and workers behind them — that make that possible.
From training smallholder farmers to running multi-site processing operations — the same network Blue Tide now draws on for Australian supply.
Worked directly with local shrimp farmers on stocking, disease management and sustainable pond practice — the foundation everything since is built on.
Moved into exporting directly, connecting the farmer network to international buyers for the first time.
Commissioned a purpose-built, HACCP-based processing plant inside a dedicated seafood-processing precinct — the shift from trader to processor.
Two further processing facilities added within the same precinct, lifting freezing and cold-storage capacity to meet growing global demand.
The network now spans thousands of contracted growers, all supported with training, disease management and certification assistance.
Blue Tide Seafoods opens a direct line from that same supply network into the Australian wholesale and foodservice trade.
Individually quick-frozen and packed to your specification. Whole, peeled, cooked or raw — graded, sized and ready for the cold chain. Sizes available across the standard count grades (e.g. 16/20 through 71/90).
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Every carton is graded, labelled and sealed to export standard before it ever reaches the cold chain. A look at packaging from our supply line.
Sample retail packaging from our supply partner — shown to demonstrate grading, sealing and labelling standards. Blue Tide can pack to your own carton spec and branding on request.
Every consignment carries its story — and its paperwork. Here's the path each prawn takes before it lands on an Australian dock.
Antibiotic-free white-leg shrimp raised by contracted farmers across our global partner network, currently spanning India and Vietnam, using sustainable, responsibly-sourced methods.
Cleaned, graded and individually quick-frozen in HACCP-based, export-approved units, then packed to your specification.
Sampled and certified disease-free offshore, with health certification that meets Australia's import conditions before shipping.
Inspected on arrival under Australian biosecurity control, then released into our cold chain for delivery to your door.
A vertically-integrated partner farming, processing and freezing at scale — so your orders arrive on time, at consistent grade.
Import permits, health certification and biosecurity testing managed end-to-end, so you receive cleared, labelled product.
Every carton ties back to a health certificate and batch number — clean provenance for your own customers and audits.
Count grades, cuts, glaze and carton sizes built to your order — retail-ready or bulk foodservice.
Blue Tide draws on a vetted network of farming and processing partners across multiple countries — currently spanning India and Vietnam — each with 25+ years in the export trade, supplying the USA, UK, Canada, Europe and Asia from US FDA-approved facilities. Sourcing across origins means your supply isn't tied to any single region's season, weather or politics — and gives us room to bring on new origin countries and partners as we grow.
Imported prawns face some of the strictest biosecurity conditions in the world. We treat that as the baseline, not the obstacle.
Every raw consignment is tested for white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) and yellow head virus genotype 1 (YHV1), offshore and again on arrival.
We import under current Australian permit conditions, sourced from a Competent Authority recognised to meet those conditions.
Retail-ready packaging carries the required biosecurity statement, batch numbers and country-of-origin labelling.
Maintained at -18°C and below from freezing to delivery, with temperature-controlled distribution.
Batch numbers reconcile to health certificates end-to-end — ready for retailer and auditor scrutiny.
Food labelling prepared in line with Food Standards Australia New Zealand requirements for imported seafood.
Tell us what you sell and how much you move. We'll come back with grades, pricing and a sample plan. Wholesale, distribution and foodservice only.