Increasing demands for lightly processed seafood stresses the need for development of nonintensive processing methods that ensures a safe product. The limitation to the shelf life of seafood is often ascribed to microbial activity. An experiment was design to investigate the influence of heattreatments in combination with packaging technologies (vacuum (VAC), modified atmosphere (MA) packaging, or soluble gas stabilization (SGS)) on the microbial survival of inoculated species. Fish patties were inoculated with either Brochothrix thermosphacta or Listeria innocua before heattreatment, packaging, and storage at 2ᵒC for 16 days. Results showed increased heat-treatment lowered the bacterial load throughout the experiment. The choice of packaging technology had a bigger effect on the results, where VAC-samples had a significantly higher bacterial load than MAand lastly SGS-packaged samples, regardless of heat-treatment (L. innocua: 8.7±0.1, 8.3±0.1, 8.2±0.1logCFU/g, B. thermosphacta: 9.9±0.1, 9.2±0.1, 8.6±0.1 logCFU/g, respectively, at end of storage). Furthermore, use of CO2 significantly increased the bacterial inhibition by heat (0.5-0.6logCFU/g) and extended the lag phase of B. thermosphacta, as well as decreasing the growth rate of both inoculum species. It is concluded that use of SGS has the opportunity to fulfill the consumers' demand of fresh, lightly processed seafood with a reasonable shelf life.