Trends of production of fish in Assam

India is the 2ndlargest producer of fish in the world, it produces 90.40 lakh tonnes of fish in 2012-13.Fishery resource generate employment for about 14 million people either directly or indirectly involved in the agricultural and industrial sectors of fish production, processing, ornaments and related activities. In India the production of fish is done in the oceans, rivers, tributaries, ponds tanks and derelict water bodies of Assam, Orissa, Tripura, Meghalaya and Uttar Pradesh. The present study is an attempt to study the trend of fish production in terms of production in the state of Assam. In order to study the trends of fish production, the secondary data regarding production of fish for the period 1980-81to 20013-14 were collected from various publications. To analyze the trend of production of fish, the linear, quadratic and exponential functional forms were selected. Finally linear function was used in the study to estimate the trend of fish production based on highest R2 value. The results reveal growth of production of fish in the state was found to be increasing which were statistically significant at 5% probability level. This assumption seemed to be positive from the estimated significant positive compound growth rates of production of fish. This implies the acceleration of growth of production of fish in the state. However, the coefficient of variation (CV) of production of fish was more than 49 per cent. The results of the instability indices depicted that the instability indices for production for fish in the state were positive and thereby indicating less riskiness.