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Kaibarta, Malo, Patni, Maimal and Namasudra are the major fishing communities of Assam (Day,1989). The process of globalization, Liberalization and privatization effectively started from 1991 in India. In the last few decades, the life style of Indian people both in urban and villages have drastically changed due to take place globalization of marketing, liberalization of different policies and privatization of service sectors like health, education etc. Now unlike the other communities of Assam. The fishermen community also engaged in different areas like government, private and entrepreneurial works. Occupation is closely interrelated with socio-economic and cultural factors, that's why it is important to make a study to understand the cause, for which they adopt new occupation in response to the process of social change. The present study is under taken in two fishermen dominated villages of Nalbari District to explore about the occupational mobility among them. It also focuses what are new occupations they were chosen and what factors are responsible for adopting new livelihood source.