What's the secret to fishing docks?!

[Rory]

I don't need food, but I was sick of having, like, 200 laborers. My seed has a few BIG lakes (each one can fit about 5-6 fishing docks). So I put the docks down; none of them are overlapping or anything. And each one pulls in maybe 20 - 40 fish per season. Am I doing something wrong?

[Ottomic]

Do you have a barn near the docks?

Also, can you attach a screenshot of the layout? Would help a lot.

[NoWay]

Originally posted by Ottomic:

Do you have a barn near the docks?

Also, can you attach a screenshot of the layout? Would help a lot.

Place barns next up to the fishing docks, and assign enought vendors.
Helps alot.
But that's not the only major factor.

Do the fishermen have to walk far to their homes?
Because, they need to eat and warm themselfs in their homes.

[hackersmurf]

20-40 with it on a big lake?? That's weird, I've only seen those numbers on the little streams. Screenshot?

My docks get 2200 regularly because I know how to place them (at bends, etc... anywhere they cover a very large portion of water in their circle) with houses and barns next to it. But on a lake, it should still be getting quite a bit, at least 800 or so. Do you have houses and barns next door? Do they have to travel very far to pick up supplies from a market or another barn?

Edit:There's nothing wrong with having lots of laborers, they do a lot. They aren't unemployed people (how I thought of them at first), they keep your city running quite smoothly. So if your town is running efficiently and you don't need any professionals, just keep the laborers. :)

[Honor]

I was reading that you can cause the fish to go extinct by overfishing in a certain spot. I read the same thing about deer, they can go extinct by overkill. I need to learn more about this because after reading that this happens in game i tend to shut the fishing/hunter buildings down after a few years and restart them after a couple years pass. Need more information on this.

[hackersmurf]

That's been tested on the official forum (not by me, just repeating) and proven to be false. I've had fisheries and hunters for years and years and would have to agree though.

[Ottomic]

Originally posted by sunirose4:

I was reading that you can cause the fish to go extinct by overfishing in a certain spot. I read the same thing about deer, they can go extinct by overkill. I need to learn more about this because after reading that this happens in game i tend to shut the fishing/hunter buildings down after a few years and restart them after a couple years pass. Need more information on this.

You can't overhunt in Banished. As long as there's water/forest there's deer/fish.

Or vice versa. Can't remember.

[Poobah Gorg]

I seem to recall lakes being just about the best place to put a fishing hut. Another one is on a corner. On a corner you've got water on two sides, which tends to get you more water and less land in the hut's circle. It's probably best to avoid placing them on the narrower streams/creeks. Employ four fishermen per hut, and (as you've reported) don't have the circles overlapping.

Put the entrance to a barn one square away from the hut, with a road in between. Have at least a pair of houses very close to the hut. Students wind up getting married before they start working, so you often need more than two houses.