A study on entrepreneurship behaviour of fisherwomen in the Ratnagiri block of Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra state was conducted during 2011-12 with a sample size of 105 fisherwomen from 10 villages of Ratnagiri block in Ratnagiri district. The components of entrepreneurial behaviour were innovativeness, risk orientation, decision making, economic motivation, management orientation and self-confidence. Among all these components majority of respondents (55.24%) belong to medium entrepreneurial behaviour but in innovativeness and achievement motivation respondents exhibited low and high entrepreneurial behaviour category. The rank correlation technique was applied and found that the characteristics such as education, family size, house type and social participation Original Research Article