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This book contains a total of 25 unpublished research articles. In this edition, we have kept parity with the outcomes of each other concisely in a unique style to depict the trends of research in mountain fishery sector and also have appended a list of contributors at the end of the book. The strategies observed on fisheries and aquaculture development in mountain waters clearly reveals that the on-going dimensions are nothing but broad ecosystem based approach where both subsistence and commercial expansion of the systems could be possible.. The research trend also directs that there exist several fishery components like ornamental fisheries, recreational fisheries, integrated fish farming, freshwater crab fishery, shell fish aquaculture etc., may also be strengthened additionally in mountain waters to improve the economic status of the mountain regions. Thus for exploiting huge mountain aqua-resource, Arunachal Pradesh targets the ecosystem based approach of raising native mahseers like Tor tor, Tor putitora, Neolissochilus hexagonolepis and exotic species of trouts into its mountain waters as one of the preliminary endevour.