There is no reason why Assam needs to drive out scarce resources of the State to import a huge scale of fish worth around Rs 1000 crore a year in spite of its abundant scope of pisciculture with numerous rivers, ponds, beels and reservoirs. If these sources are properly utilised in a scientific way with modern technology, the State could not only meet the domestic demand but could also generate a surplus to export the product to neighbouring States and even to international market. Assam has presently to import around 20 thousand tonnes of fish varieties from other States of the country every year only to meet its supply gap. While inaugurating the Matsya Mahotsav, 2008 at Shilpagram, Guwahati, the Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi rightly stressed on the need to raise production of fish through scientific methods in order to meet the overgrowing demand for the same and also to achieve surplus production not only to improve fish producers