Asia has experienced rapid growth of aquaculture in the past four decades and this has significantly contributed to an increased supply of fish products for improved nutrition of the Asian people. It has also strongly benefitted the global seafood trade, local livelihoods and overall economic development. Being a relatively new food production sector of industrial scale, aquaculture has been developed in the region especially India, in many cases, without good planning and management. This has caused immediate threat and emerging risks to its sustainability in the long term. With population growth and changes in people's dietary habits as the result of improving living standards, it is anticipated that the global demand for food fish will increase significantly in the coming decades. Sustainable growth of aquaaquaculture attained so far is being contributed few aquaculture species and with the minimum exploitation of the resources.In India ,offshore aquaculture is considered as the most feasible approach to meet this increasing demand.The growth of the But, it is very difficult to imagine India aquaculture achieving sustained growth without significantly improved planning and management.This presentation deals with the assessment on the pathways for aquaculture in India.