As a new food packaging technology， intelligent packaging can sense the change of internal environment and atmosphere of stored food sensitively and make visual response， so as to achieve the purpose of monitoring the quality and freshness of food. In recent years， there have been a lot of reports on intelligent packaging materials for aquatic product preservation， especially more and more researches on the application of polysaccharides based food intelligent packaging in aquatic product preservation. In this paper， firstly， the intelligent packaging system and the intelligent packaging of polysaccharides were summarized. And the differences in the film-forming characteristics of several representative polysaccharides were focused， as well as the properties and color-changing mechanism of indicators in the polysaccharides based intelligent packaging were described emphatically. Secondly， the progress of intelligent packaging based on polysaccharides applied in aquatic were reviewed. Finally， based on the current research progress， summed up the problems about the research and application of intelligent packaging film based on polysaccharide， and for the future studies about enhances the stability of polysaccharide based intelligent packaging film has made a further outlook.