Where does the fish go?

[toomanynights]

There's the thing in Fishing Dock that kind of makes me mad :-[
Fish dissapears with some time. I mean, first year they catch 1200, second 1050, third 900 etc. Why?! Does the fish run away from fishers?)

Well, I know about that need of avoiding "overfishing", as it's said in Wiki. But where's a border between overfishing and normal fishing? I have only two workers at my Fishing Dock and fish started dissapearing slowly from the second year.
What should one do to make fishing docks work normally, without that annoying debuff? Maybe make it work only one year fron a couple and turn it off for the second?

[Lady Rose]

A lot of things can affect the yields.

A nearby bridge or trading post can reduce usable water area. (This was actually demonstrated with the debug mod, showing how fishable water was affected with those structures nearby.)

Changes in the town can slow down productivity due to distance - for example, adding a market so now people go there for goods, which may end up being further away than the barn they were getting stuff out of before. But any changes can have an affect as workers shift around. This is especially obvious early in the game, because things are constantly shifting and resettling as you expand.

If you don't have 100% educated population, some of your educated fishermen may have been swapped out with uneducated fishermen.

[Lenkdrache]

generally, I place a small storage yard or a barn near my production facilities.... a fisherman hut will have easy and close access to a barn. Each farm has a house, and a barn (logical) so when harvest time comes, they fill the barns, then the vendors come get the goods.

Let your market vendors do the legwork, that's what they are there for :)