Climbing perch (Anabas testudineus) is a native freshwater fish that is cultured in Southeast Asia (Chotipuntu & Avakul, 2010). It is a locally specific freshwater fish in Indonesia that is spread across the islands of Sumatra, Java, and Kalimantan. Climbing perch is not an endangered category, as reported in the Red List International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (Ahmad et al., 2019). This fish is known as Papuyu in South Kalimantan or called Puyu-puyu in West Sumatra. Uniquely, climbing perch has economic value as an exotic food menu of Banjar people in South Kalimantan (Syarifuddin et al., 1993; Candra et al., 2019; Widianti et al., 2021). As a source of daily food, the Banjar people get more supplies of climbing perch from natural catches. Despite the conservation status of the climbing perch as not an endangered fish, the climbing perch population is decreasing in areas where people have a high preference for this fish due to uncontrolled fishing activities as well as settlement and plantation development activities (Fig. 8.1).