Fish farming or pisciculture involves commercial breeding of fish, most often for food, in fish tanks or artificial enclosures such as fish ponds. It is a particular type of aquaculture, which is the controlled cultivation and harvesting of aquatic animals such as fish, crustaceans, molluscs and so on, in natural or pseudo-natural environments. Within the aquaculture sector, production of white leg shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) ranked first in value of farmed aquatic species. Litopenaeus vannamei is an omnivorous scavenger and is less aggressive. Shrimp aquaculture began incidentally centuries ago in Asia, then progressed into extensive, seasonal culture in India, Bangladesh, and Vietnam, until the twentieth century brought strides in research regarding the complex shrimp life cycle. The current paper covers a general aspect on aquaculture and shrimp cultivation