Quick tip: how to figure out what fish to farm.

[Tiddalik]

I've been reading a lot of advice around fish farming but I think a handful of advice is from people who have not unlocked all staff dishes (hire everyone, keep spares in waiting room, level staff to at least lvl15 to unlock the higher priced dishes.)

A fast way to figure out what fish to keep, open the 'ingredients' list in the sushi restaurant. Look at each fish and on their stats page there will be a list of dishes that require that fish to cook. If a fish only has one low priced sushi, don't farm that, but if a fish has a list of dishes, some will be blacked out with a ??? ??? if you haven't started levelling up staff, then those are the fish you do want to keep farming. Those blacked out dishes are the ones you learn when you level up staff and unlock the higher priced dishes. Even if you are not looking to level up staff just yet keep those fish in the farms because you will need the flesh to level up the dishes and some fish just do not breed fast.

Hope this helps someone.

[Jeff]

Some of the best fish to farm has 0 dishes imo.

I made a tier list of how profitable a fish is to catch and sell, like just raw ingredients straight from the ingredients tab.

I would dive and catch a the B, A, and S tier fish and before mealtime just sell it to level up staff. I would catch some stuff for sushi but that never fills weight completely.

Some of this has good dishes but some doesn't, like clione, starry skate & qingmendus are all good $ per KG of weight to haul up, so you get a ton of eggs from them.

It is a good idea to let go of the fish that both:

A) are not profitable
B) No good dishes

An early list I made of those are: yellow tang, sea goldie, cardinal, flame angel, yellowback fus, lagoon trigger, blackspot seabream, emperor angel, black & white snapper, blue head tile, grey trigger, atlantic angler, white tip reef shark, sheephead, longnose shark.

[Tiddalik]

At the start I was selling from the farm for quick cash. Like you mentioned, I liked the cliones for money to begin with since they breed so fast + nice egg drop.

For me the sushi + branch is just so profitable now that I haven't needed to rely on my farm for money so I've been focusing on farming the fish for the higher priced dishes. But to begin with, before I unlocked the top tier dishes via levelling staff, selling from the farm was a good method for making money for sure.