Abstract: “For the district of Natore, in the last decade or so, aquaculture has played a significant role in improving the locals’ socio - economic status. It is only in recent years that the negative impacts of unplanned pond - cutting have become profound and are introducing severe environmental and economic issues. This report encompasses the present status of Gurudaspur, Natore’s vil lages of Nazirpur and Chapila unions where fish - farmers and agricultural farmers alike are facing problems such as water - logging, loss of agricultural land for crops and fruit trees and economic losses. For this study, ArcGIS is used to analyze the images to show the land transformation from 2001 to 2016; through participatory rural approach (PRA) and using investigations by the authors, it was validated that many agricultural lands were converted to fish ponds as the croplands could not stand the amounts o f water that inundated the lands. It was also found that although the conversion rate was steady from”

Keywords: aquaculture, water-logging, land use pattern, enviornmental impacts, Natore