Fisheries sector occupying a unique status in India as it provides employment, food and nutritional security
and foreign exchange. Shrimp farming is an integral activity of the fisheries sector. Shrimp culture on commercial
scale begun very recently in India. Among the various factors which determines the adoption of shrimp farming
governmental policies and market in wake of post WTO era is most important. Some of the environmental issues
are also associated with the shrimp farming. So the present study is an attempt to study the policies responsible for
adoption of shrimp culture in the Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh. The study showed that the legal and
environmental policies influenced the adoption of shrimp culture technologies
