Phoxinus phoxinus (L.) named as European minnow or common minnow, is a very widespread species, is found across the Europe and Asia, from the Atlantic to the Pacific (Howes 1985, Banarescu 1990). Minnows are a common cyprinid species in lakes and rivers of the Palearctic region. It can live in a wide variety of habitats from cold and well oxygenated habitats from small, fast-flowing streams to large Nordic lowland rivers and from small upland lakes to large oligotrophic lakes. Usually occurs in association with salmonid fishes (Kottelat, M. and J. Freyhof 2007).