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The fishing and aquaculture sub-sector has seen significant growth, with output increasing from about Rs 80,000 crore in 2011-12 to approximately Rs 1,95,000 crore in 2022-23 in Andhra Pradesh. This includes the entire output of marine fishing and prawn production. Fish farming (culture), also called pisciculture is the principal form of aquaculture. It involves raising fish commercially in tanks or enclosures, usually for food. The discipline of Fisheries and Aquaculture is science, art, business rolled into one. It is science as far as the techniques of fish breeding and production are concerned; an art as far as managing the work skilfully is concerned and a business as far as trading in fish and other aquatic products is concerned. Fishery is the occupation or industry of catching, processing or selling fish or shell fish. Fish farming offers an alternative solution to the increasing market demand for fish and fish protein. More than half of the sample fish farmers are below 50 years age in all the sample mandals in the study area. More than 30 years fishing experience are more in Kaviti mandal 11.5 percent and the remaining three mandals reported very less figures. It is seen in the table that more than half of the fish farmers (65.5%) earn income below Rs. 1,50,000. We can see that saving made by fish farmers in the study area is very less.