1. Fishery can be capture fishery and culture fishery.
2. Three main divisions of capture fishery are : Inland fishery, estuarine fishery and marine fishery.
3. Inland fishery : It is culturing and capturing of from fresh water bodies. It is carried out on about 40 to 50 lakh acres of fresh water bodies such as rivers, ponds, lakes and dams.
4. Marine fishery : It includes capturing fish from sea water. India has a coastline of about 7500 km. Estuarine fishery : It includes capture of fish from estuaries.
5. Culture fishery is either of polyculture or of monoculture type. In polyculture, different species are cultured simultaneously at the same time in the same pond. In monoculture, only a single species is cultured.