• General overview

  Department of Fisheries aims to cater the needs of Tribal Fishermen & to improve the Fisheries production &

Productivity of the existing waterbodies.

Water Resources : MI Tanks: 16 MI tanks are present with area of 50.73 Ha. (including 5 Departmental tanks)

Sl. No.	District	Mandal	Village	Name of the tank	EWA (in Ha.)
1	ASR	Koyyuru	kinchavanipalem	kinchavanipalem Reservoir	4
2	ASR	Koyyuru	Lubbarthi	Lubbarthi Reservoir	1.70
3	ASR	Koyyuru	Ginjarthi	Ginjarthi Reservoir	1.30
4	ASR	Koyyuru	Kinaparthi	Thodakula gedda Reservoir	1
5	ASR	Koyyuru	Mallavaram	Mallavaram reservoir	1.70
6	ASR	Chintapalli	Chowdupallae	Pedda tank of Chowdupalle	0.76
7	ASR	Chintapalli	Antharla	Antharla Tank	2
8	ASR	Chintapalli	Pedabarada	Puligondi Reservoir	2
9	ASR	Chintapalli	Siripuram	Siripuram Reservoir	1.23
10	ASR	Chintapalli	Tajangi	Tajangi Reservoir	17.34
11	ASR	Chintapalli	Therapalli	Therapalli MI Tank	0.7
13	ASR	Araku Valley	Nandiguda	Nandiguda MI tank	4
14	ASR	Araku Valley	Slimliguda	Similiguda Mini Reservoir	9
15	ASR	Dumbriguda	Korrai	Korrai Mini Reservoir	2

Major Reservoirs

Sl. No.	Name of District	Name of Mandal	Name of reservoir	Area ( in Ha.)
1	ASR	Munchingiputtu	Jolaputtu backwaters	970
2	ASR	Pedabayalu	Jolaputtu backwaters	195
3	ASR	Koyyuru	Sileru reservoir	630

Action plan to achieve 15% Growth rate

• • Promotion of fish farming in farm ponds with Indian Major carps.

• • Promotion of Fish farming with alternative species viz. Murrel culture & Common Carp culture.

• • Establishment of captive fish seed nurseries by getting self sustainability in fish seed production.

Staff Hierarchy

District Fisheries Officer

District Level

Fisheries Development Officer – ( 1 FDO having 11 mandals of Jurisdiction)

Mandal Level

^Village Fisheries Assistant – (6 VFA’s are present)

Sachivalayam Level

Basic statistics of the Department

Sl. No.	Name of the Criteria	Number of units
1	No. of MI Tanks	16
2	No. of Department Tanks	5
3	Major water bodies	2
4	Fisheries Production 2024-2025	2410 (MT)