The paper describes a study on effects of thermal treatments (microwave heating and freezing) on fish lipids-amylose starch interactions. Particular attention was paid to lipid availability (extractability from the system) and contribution of fatty acids to various groups of lipids after interactions produced by mixing, microwave heating and storage. Analyses were made on model systems containing fish lipids at different oxidation levels and gelatinised with 10% aqueous solution of amylose starch. The lipid:starch ratio was 1:1. The systems were assayed before and after mixing, microwave heating (4 min, 90 W), freezing (30 d, 218 7C), and heating followed by freezing. Lipid extractability (selective extraction), peroxide value (PV), anisidine value (AsV), fluorescence, and fatty acid profiles (GC/MS) were determined. Mixing of fish lipids with amylose was shown to result in lipid-amylose interaction. The thermal treatments applied (microwave heating or freezing at 219 7C for 30 d) were observed to exert different, significant effects on fish lipids-amylose starch interactions. The effects depended also on the extent of lipid oxidation. Fatty acids of the lipids were bound selectively, PUFA, and particularly DHA, were subjected to stronger binding and higher amounts of those acids were bound.