| | | Strength | Weakness |
| | Production | Agricultural family background, rising demands, higher yield, governmental backing and augmentation, easy and profitable, and favorable climatic and environmental condition | Difficulty in pond construction due to topographical constraints, lack of adoption of modern production technology, improper knowledge of fish cultivation among fish farmers, and undesirable quality of seeds | | Management | High profit and prospects, involvement of more traders, middlemen, contractors, and sellers competitive market structure for the fish industry, low entry barriers | Seasonal price fluctuation, lack of postharvest storage facilities in rural areas, unsystematic and unorganized marketing channel and poor distribution network, and middlemen engagement in a faulty and inefficient way |
| | | Opportunity | Threats | | Production | Greater scope of expansion of the number of ponds, self-employment generation, and increase in supply-demand gap fish in Nepal | Climate change and global warming, increase in the price of inputs, restricted money limit of ranchers, and lack of youth’s involvement in aquaculture | | Management | Growing local and central markets, high demand for healthy and fresh fish | Inconsistent import-export quality, intense competition with the Indian market, improper government regulation and market management |
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