reported higher incidence (23.9%) of L.monocytogenes by PCR method than the present study (8%), whereas [14] reported very low incidence i.e. 1.83% (only 3 out of 132 fish samples). [11] also reported slightly higher incidence (6.9%) by cultural method than the present study (4%). Slightly low incidence i.e. 2.9% and 2.3% were reported by [15] and [16] respectively in raw fish.