Reservoirs are the “Sleeping giants of Indian Fisheries”. The Palair reservoir is a tributary of river Krishna located at Palair village of Kusumanchi mandal, Khammam district, Tenlangana. It is balancing reservoir of Nagarjuna Sagar left canal. Besides being the source of irrigation, electricity generation, it is also surviving as sole source of aquaculture activity providing nutritional security, employment and livelihood to fishermen cooperative societies of Khammam and Nalgonda districts. Its aquaculture production is representing the whole Telangana region. A study is carried out on the production potentiality of this reservoir in particular, on the fresh water prawn production to gain knowledge on its production potentiality for further enhancing the ranching of seed in Palair Reservoir and upgrade socio-economic status of fishermen community.

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