Fish culture is fast emerging as a potential sector for providing food security to the ever-growing population as well as vocation for the rural unemployed youths, especially the hill inhabitants residing in the riparian areas of lakes, rivers and streams.

The Government has initiated a number of development and welfare schemes providing financial assistance to rural poor & unemployed youth for taking up fish culture. I am confident that dissemination of information about these schemes through different media including this website would impart wider publicity to these schemes.

Himachal Pradesh has taken a lead both in ‘trout farming’ and ‘reservoir fisheries’. While the State’s reservoirs are consistently maintaining unique distinction of highest per hectare production for over two decades, successful ‘trout farming’ has made a history of its kind in the country.

The Government is committed to provide priority to the fisheries sector as a useful instrument of economic growth as also for promotion of tourism through angling of world-famous trout and mahseer.

 (Prem Kumar Dhumal)