Managed and unmanaged extensive fisheries culture systems in small village ponds in district Hisar of Haryana, India to correlate the water quality and biological cycles in ponds with fish production were undertaken. The studies revealed that the ponds are in good trophic status. Chlorides, total hardness, calcium, magnesium, biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), phosphates (o-PO4) and ammonia were high whereas dissolved oxygen and fish growth/yield was low in unmanaged ponds in comparison to managed ponds. This may be due to high organic loads.The deterioration of water quality, as indicated by very high ammonia and BOD in unmanaged ponds might have decreased the fish growth and a variety of factors like organic load, ammonia production, nature/quantity of fertilizers may have influenced such correlations. Management of water quality by managing the optimization of waste input in village ponds may help in enhancing the fish production through such small scale aquaculture.. KEYWORDS :Water quality, Physico-chemical characteristics, Fish yield, BOD, Ammonia