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Inside the new Sydney Fish Market

The new Sydney Fish Market will open on January 19. The Herald has charted the – sometimes rocky – path to this milestone.

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The redevelopment of the Sydney Fish Market has been fraught.

Secret deals, angry tenants and expensive lawsuits: The long road to the new Sydney Fish Market

When it opens on Monday, the new Sydney Fish Market will be a monument not just to seafood, but to perseverance.

  • Harriet Alexander
Inside the new Sydney Fish Market.

Exploring Sydney’s ‘Club Med for crabs’

An estimated 60 tonnes of fresh seafood, including thousands of crates of fish and crustaceans, will be sold when the long-awaited market opens on Monday.

  • Megan Gorrey
The new Sydney Fish Market roof lights up.

‘Big beautiful shed’: Touring the new Sydney Fish Market with its designers

Architect Fred Holt was told by his wife not to mess up the new fish market because every Sydneysider has a special memory. This is how he tackled it.

  • Julie Power
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The new Sydney Fish Market building 14th January 2026 Photo: STEVEN SIEWERT

‘A huge part of my life’: Retailers farewell old fish market site

Most of the existing stores – including the six seafood vendors – have signed leases to move across to the new site at below-market rates.

  • Cindy Yin and Aidan Elwig Pollock
The Glebe Society’s Asa Wahlquist and Duncan Leys in front of the new Sydney Fish Market, which will open on Monday.

Double the visitors, same number of car spots: Traffic fears for new fish market

Glebe residents are fearing traffic chaos when Sydney’s new fish market opens on Monday, with inadequate public transport and delayed upgrades hampering access.

  • Aidan Elwig Pollock
The redevelopment of the Sydney Fish Market has been fraught.

Secret deals, angry tenants and expensive lawsuits: The long road to the new Sydney Fish Market

When it opens on Monday, the new Sydney Fish Market will be a monument not just to seafood, but to perseverance.

  • Harriet Alexander
The Blackwattle Bay precinct west of Sydney’s business district will gain more than 7000 new homes.

1400 homes, 35-storey towers: The plan to transform Sydney’s old fish market site

Hundreds of apartments will replace the old fish market complex on one of the last undeveloped stretches of the harbour.

  • Megan Gorrey
The new Sydney Fish Market will have about 400 parking spots.

Year-long wait for ferries to Sydney’s new fish market revealed

The new fish market is expected to become a major tourist attraction. Yet it will have limited car parking and no ferry services for at least the first year.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
The new Sydney Fish Market is expected to become a major tourist attraction.
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There’s something fishy about this ferry wharf debacle

The venue is meant to be the Opera House for fish. Building a wharf to get tourists to visit would seem a no-brainer.

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Timelapse of the construction of the new roof of the New Sydney Fish Market that is scheduled to open mid January 2026.
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Timelapse of the construction of the new roof of the Sydney Fish Market

Timelapse of the construction of the new roof of the New Sydney Fish Market that is scheduled to open mid January 2026.

An artist’s impression of the eastern entrance of the new Sydney Fish Market.

Revealed: Top Japanese fine-diner to join fish market

The tiny fine-diner will relocate to the Blackwattle Bay development, joining other exciting Japanese venues.

  • Scott Bolles

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