The resource contains summary data from 30 interviews undertaken of key stakeholders in Australia's fisheries and aquaculture sectors in 2022-23. Participants included officers in management agencies, sector representative bodies, research agencies as well as operators of small and large seafood firms involved in production and/or post-harvest or retailing of Australian-produced seafood. Participants are not identified. Interview topics covered the experiences of those interviewed on the COVID-19 pandemic and the disruptions it caused their sectors of Australia's fisheries and aquaculture, as well as their observations of what are barriers and enablers of better preparedness to future disruptions. Topics included: Types of disruptions experienced (B); Responses (C); and Barriers and enablers to better future preparedness. The interview data was summarised using Microsoft Co-pilot using prompts to summarise responses to an individual question. The research was undertaken under University of Tasmania’s Human Research Ethics Committee approval (ref. H27649). The full research project report is available here: https://www.frdc.com.au/project/2021-042.

This metadata catalogue presents a list of the data assets used in the analysis presented in this report: Ogier, E., Sen, S., Smith, D. C., Rust, S., Magnusson, A., Jennings, S., Pethiyagoda, N., Spanou, E. (2025). Impact of COVID-19 on the Australian Seafood Industry: January 2020-June 2021 and beyond. Report prepared as part of FRDC project 2021-042: Impacts of COVID-19 on the Australian Seafood Industry: Extending the assessment to prepare for uncertain futures. Canberra, Australia, Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC).