ludhiana dr asha dhawan dean college of fisheries said the popularity of fish aquariums has steadily increased the global trade that has a turnover of us 5 billion and has an annual growth rate of 8to cater with the demands of the state department of aquaculture of guru angad dev veterinary and animal sciences university gadvasu conducted a oneday training course on culture and breeding of ornamental fish and fabrication of aquariums about 30 farmers from different villages of bathinda district attended the training she added that punjab has a wide range of ornamental fish but most were being supplied from other parts of the country such as kolkata chennai etc dr dhawan said that in india the domestic ornamental fish market is worth rs 500 million and the demand is annually increasing at the rate of 20 the country contributes about 0008 to the global trade dhawan added culturing and keeping ornamental fish began as a stress relieving hobby and is now emerging as a commercial venture ornamental fish farming not only provides aesthetic pleasure to fish keeper but is also an easy way to financial gains dr vaneet inder kaur assistant scientist fisheries demonstrated the technical knowledge regarding various culture and management practices such as rearing feed management water quality management and health management trainees were provided a handson session on breeding practices aquarium fabrication and decoration this activity has a potential to create job opportunities which can involve rural women and housewives