In order to understand the muscle nutritional value and texture profile of I.punctatus reared in ponds and reservoir cages, the nutritional composition, the water holding capacity and texture profile of muscle in I.punctatus were investigated.The crude protein, crude fat, crude ash, and moisture of muscle in I.punctatus were assayed by biochemical analysis methods.The muscular contents of mineral elements were measured by inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry(ICP-AES).The parameters of muscular texture profile, including hardness, springiness, cohesiveness, gumminess, chewiness, and resilience, were analyzed using a texture analyzer.Double compression was applied to construct the texture profile analyses(TPA) of raw fillets.The results showed that the rate of flesh content in I.punctatus reared in either pond or reservoir group was more than 65%.Flesh leaching loss increased significantly in the pond group(3.96%) compared with those in the reservoir group(3.35%).Compared to the I.punctatus in the pond group(1.73% and 17.19%, respectively), a significantly lower value in either drip loss or liquid loss was observed in the I.punctatus in the reservoir group(2.37% and 27.16%, respectively).The I.punctatus exhibited higher contents of crude protein and crude ash in the reservoir group(18.78% and 1.03%, respectively) than those of the pond group(16.69% and 0.90%, respectively).A significantly higher crude fat(3.90%) was found in the I.punctatus in the pond group.The I.punctatus reared either in pond or in reservoir had rich mineral elements content in muscle.Compared to the pond group(3 184, 1 787, 78.8, 246, 4.19 and 3.58 mg/kg, respectively), a significantly higher content of potassium(K), phosphorus(P), calcium(Ca), magnesium(Mg), zinc(Zn), and iron(Fe) was observed in the reservoir group(3 951, 2 325, 110, 312, 5.15 and 4.94 mg/kg, respectively).However, there were no significant differences in sodium(Na), copper(Cu), manganese(Mn), and chromium(Cr) between the pond group and the reservoir group.No selenium(Se) was detected in fish muscle of both groups.The calcium-phosphorus ratios of muscle in the pond group and the reservoir group were 1:22.6 and 1:21.1, respectively.The hardness, gumminess, and chewiness of muscle enhanced significantly in the I.punctatus in the reservoir group(2 721, 1 209 and 397 g, respectively) compared with those in the pond group(4 552, 1 738 and 578 g, respectively).The pond group(0.45 and 0.31, respectively) had significant higher resilience and cohesiveness than those of the reservoir group(0.38 and 0.24, respectively).Given the results, the muscle of I.punctatus showed higher water holding capacity in the pond group, whereas the I.punctatus muscle in the reservoir group contained higher protein, lower fat, richer mineral elements content, and higher hardness.