ABSTRACT Puntius schawanefeldii is one of common fish in the Koto Panjang Dam. This fish commonly present around the floating cage culture area. Small P. schawanefeldii sometimes enter the culture cages and become trapped in the cages as they grew up. Farmers used to remove the trapped fish and put them in the cage around the cage culture area. The net caged P. schawanefeldii were not given an…