Submariner — Sea Life

Amber Current Eel

uncommon

6–16 SP

An eel threaded with amber current bands that pulse when it coils. It nests around charged wreckage and leaves a warm trail in the dark.

Ambercoil Eel

uncommon

5–15 SP

An amber eel whose body glows in warm segmented coils. It tangles around cables and hums softly when hauled aboard.

Amberglass Lantern Eel

uncommon

6–16 SP

A slim lantern eel whose amber organs glow through the skin like warm glass. Crews say its light goes steady when the water is calm and flickers when the deep is lying.

Amberjaw Vent Trout

uncommon

6–16 SP

The Amberjaw Vent Trout cruises warm seams in the water with its lower jaw glowing like heated resin. It cooks rich and smoky, as if it remembers the vent it came from.

Anchorline Anchovy

common

1–3 SP

This tiny anchovy follows anchor chains like they are sacred roads. It is mostly bone and salt, but its metallic little glimmer makes deckhands chase it anyway.

Anchorline Herring

common

1–3 SP

A narrow herring that travels in straight runs along anchor chains and cable shadows. Crews follow its schools when the silt gets too thick.

Argent Depth Sturgeon

rare

28–60 SP

A rare sturgeon armored in silver-gray plates from the deep pressure lanes. It rises slowly, fights heavily, and makes the deck feel smaller.

Ashfin Sculpin

uncommon

4–10 SP

Ashfin Sculpins hunker among soot-black rocks until a careless hand gets close. The fins look burned, the eyes look offended, and the cooked flesh is better than the face suggests.

Atlantic Mourning Mackerel

common

1–3 SP

A sleek mackerel with pale tear-shaped marks along its flank. It tastes clean and cold, and the crew usually stops joking while eating it.

Aurora Gill Pike

uncommon

6–16 SP

Aurora Gill Pikes flash curtain-bright gills when startled, staining the water with bands of violet and blue. Their gill fans are prized for current sensing, and a fresh catch can make even a tired science crew lean closer.

Aurora Spine Sailfish

rare

30–60 SP

A sailfish with luminous aurora colors along its spine. It appears beneath shifting surface lights, turning the water into a blade of color.

Barnacleback Shad

common

1–3 SP

A shad that carries tiny barnacle scars across its back from rubbing against wreckage. The scars make it ugly, distinctive, and easier to spot.

Barnaclecoin Blenny

common

0–2 SP

A grumpy blenny crusted with coin-like barnacles and old reef grit. It is edible with enough patience, though no cook has ever called that patience well spent.

Bayonet-Fin Sculpin

common

1–3 SP

A squat sculpin with two stiff dorsal spines like dull bayonets. It is small, armored, and personally offended by nets.

Bell Diver Bass

common

1–3 SP

A sturdy little bass with tarnished bell-bronze plates around its gills. It noses through silt where old warning bells should have rung, tasting faintly metallic once cooked.

Bentlight Sardine

common

1–3 SP

A slim sardine with a yellow stripe that bends like a tired beam from the sub lights. Schools of them curve away in one bright ribbon.

Bilgeglow Gudgeon

common

0–2 SP

A squat gudgeon with a dim belly-glow fed by whatever leaks out of pirate bilges. Technically edible, though the galley usually asks who lost a bet.

Bioluminex Pod

common

6–15 SP

Bioluminex Pods grow in the dark folds of reef-beasts and vent kelp, storing light the way surface plants store sugar. Fresh pods pulse when music vibrates through the hull, making them useful for low-grade illumination, lure crafting, and any crew experiment that begins with someone saying the glow is probably harmless.

Biscuit Tang

common

1–3 SP

A round tan tang with a buttery stripe and a mild flavor crews pretend they are not tired of.

Blackcurrent Basslet

uncommon

5–16 SP

Blackcurrent Basslets hold position in flows strong enough to tug loose tools from a deck. Their meat is dense and dark, a favorite among crews who swear it tastes better after a rough voyage.

Blackdock Perchlet

common

1–3 SP

A palm-sized perchlet that nests beneath old loading docks and drowned platforms. Its dark scales make it nearly invisible until its silver mouth snaps open.

Blackflag Minnow

common

1–3 SP

A quick silver minnow with a torn black dorsal fin that looks like a tiny pirate flag. It is more swagger than supper, but the galley can still crisp it into something useful.

Blackreef Pilchard

common

1–3 SP

A smoky pilchard that blends into black reef stone and old cannon soot. Its red fins are the only warning before the school scatters.

Blackwake Breamlet

common

1–3 SP

A round little breamlet wearing dark wake-shaped markings like battle paint. It looks severe right up until it bumps into the net.

Bloodmoon Corsair Tuna

rare

32–60 SP

A scarred tuna that hunts beneath red moonlight and broken black flags. It hits the line like a cannonball with fins.

Bloodmoon Hatchet

rare

25–60 SP

A blade-bodied hatchetfish with a red crescent glow under its ribs. Old hands say if a bucket of them dims all at once, something larger has noticed the boat.

Bluecap Pilchard

common

1–3 SP

A common pilchard with a bright blue crown of scales. Its color fades within minutes of capture, like the sea taking back its paint.

Bluefire Needlefish

uncommon

6–16 SP

A long needlefish edged in cold blue flame. The glow is harmless, but nobody believes that the first time.

Bluepin Darter

common

1–3 SP

Bluepin Darters are quick, narrow fish that flick between shadows on bright cobalt fins. They are too small to boast about and too pretty to throw back, which is exactly the kind of compromise Submariner crews understand.

Bluepulse Needlefish

uncommon

6–16 SP

A needlefish lined with blue pulse dots from nose to tail. It travels fast and straight, like a signal given teeth.

Boiler Room Smelt

common

1–3 SP

The Boiler Room Smelt carries soot-dark scales and a copper belly glow, as if it swallowed the last warmth from a drowned furnace. It darts around rusted machinery and thermal seams, nibbling at mineral flakes. It tastes faintly smoky, which is either a delicacy or a warning depending on who is cooking.

Boilerplate Blenny

common

1–3 SP

A tough blenny wrapped in gray riveted bands. It wedges into pressure-twisted seams and thrashes like a tiny engineering problem on a hook.

Boilerplate Breamlet

common

1–3 SP

A chunky breamlet with overlapping scales like tiny boiler plates. It feeds around warm hulls and tastes faintly of minerals no cook can name.

Bootlace Eellet

common

0–2 SP

A skinny eellet with tan markings that cross its back like old boot laces. It coils into any loose knot it can find and comes out of the pan tougher than expected.

Bootprint Blenny

common

0–2 SP

A stubborn blenny marked with muddy boot-shaped spots. It lurks where pirate crews once stomped across flooded decks and still seems annoyed about it.

Brackish Lamp Goby

common

1–3 SP

A tiny goby with a weak glowing lure above one eye. It is more hopeful than dangerous, which is not a survival strategy the ocean respects.

Brackish Lantern Smolt

common

1–3 SP

A smolt with a dull lantern patch beneath the throat, just bright enough to give away its hiding place. It is proof that the deep rewards subtlety poorly.

Brass Button Blenny

common

1–2 SP

The Brass Button Blenny is a tiny, stubborn fish with polished gold spots down its sides. It wedges itself into coat hooks, drawer pulls, and other passenger-room scraps, glaring as if it owns the wreck. It is edible, though catching enough for a meal feels like robbing a very small museum.

Brassdot Hakelet

common

1–3 SP

A young hake dotted with dull brass spots. It nibbles at polished wreckage and pretends that makes it treasure.

Brassscale Pilchard

common

1–3 SP

A pilchard with dull brass flecks along its sides, common around wrecks where the past is flaking into the sand.

Brightslit Lancetfish

uncommon

7–16 SP

Brightslit Lancetfish cut through the dark with thin luminous seams along their sides. Their teeth can nick a glove through the net, but the catch pays back the trouble in clean oil and firm meat.

Brimstone Hatchetfish

uncommon

6–15 SP

Brimstone Hatchetfish gather near sulfur vents, their yellow belly plates glowing whenever the water turns sharp and hot. The meat is barely worth the argument, but the plates make excellent heat-reactive markers for engine-room repairs.

Brine Thread Whiting

common

1–3 SP

A thin whiting trailed by delicate thread fins. It tastes of clean salt and vanishes from nets if handled too roughly.

Brinebutton Goby

common

1–2 SP

Brinebutton Gobies squat in reef cracks and stare at the sub like they are judging the welds. Their spotted fins sell for pocket change, and their main talent is surviving places where better fish have already left.

Brinechalk Whiting

common

1–3 SP

A pale whiting dusted with salt-white flecks like chalk rubbed over wet slate. It cooks clean and flakes apart before anyone can complain.

Brinefreckle Flounder

common

1–3 SP

A flat seabed catch peppered with pale brine freckles and a permanently offended stare. It hides well enough to survive predators, but not well enough to avoid a patient crew net.

Brineglass Sailfin

uncommon

5–15 SP

The Brineglass Sailfin flashes through the beam lights like a shard of frozen tide. Its tall fin cracks if handled roughly, but careful cooks say the meat stays clean and bright.

Brinepeg Goby

common

0–2 SP

A squat goby that braces itself against currents like an old peg in a cannon deck. It is stubborn, edible, and almost impossible to impress.

Brinepenny Sprat

common

1–3 SP

A tiny sprat with a copper belly that glints like a coin dropped into brine. It is too small to impress anyone alone, but a handful makes the pan smell like the sea is trying to apologize.

Bristlewake Codlet

common

1–3 SP

A small codlet with stiff bristles along its dorsal ridge that vibrate in current. It leaves a messy little wake for such a modest fish.

Broadside Butterfish

common

1–3 SP

A flat gold butterfish speckled like smoke after a cannon broadside. It flakes beautifully, even if it stares at the cook like it remembers the battle.

Brownkelp Thread Herring

common

1–3 SP

A narrow herring traced with brown kelp-thread marks. It feeds in loose weed beds and slips through fingers like wet twine.

Buckled Breamlet

common

0–2 SP

A plump breamlet with buckle-like markings and a puffed-up attitude. It looks armored, but the galley treats it as breakfast.

Bulkhead Blenny

common

1–3 SP

A square-headed blenny that shelters in dents and rivet holes along old hull plating. It charges anything that casts a shadow over its door.

Cannonpearl Perch

uncommon

5–14 SP

A stout perch with dark cannonball spots set into pearl scales. It favors quiet gun decks where the metal has gone cold.

Cannonwake Sardine

common

1–3 SP

A silver sardine that darts through old cannon scars in the reef. When frightened, the whole school snaps direction like a volley being fired.

Chainshadow Blenny

common

1–3 SP

A purple-gray blenny with linked shadow marks down its side. It shelters beneath hanging chain and snaps at anything smaller than itself.

Chalkfin Dab

common

1–3 SP

A flat little dab with powder-pale fins that vanish against silt beds. It is easy to overlook until it flips up in a net like a wet scrap of moonlight.

Chalktail Breamlet

common

1–3 SP

A round common breamlet with a pale chalk-white tail that shows up in murky water before the rest of the fish. It is bland, dependable, and exactly what hungry crews ask for.

Cinderfin Shiner

common

1–3 SP

A lean shiner with smoky fins and ember-orange tips. It follows warmth through the dark, often turning up wherever the submarine's engines have recently been.

Clampjaw Goby

common

1–3 SP

A squat goby with an oversized jaw that clamps onto rocks during hard currents. It looks permanently annoyed, even after becoming dinner.

Coal Bunker Gudgeon

common

1–3 SP

A soot-specked gudgeon that feeds around drowned fuel bunkers. Its copper glints make the science bench suspicious, but the galley calls it smoky enough to keep.

Coal Dust Codlet

common

1–3 SP

A stubby codlet powdered with black speckles, the Coal Dust Codlet feeds around old fuel bunkers and sediment falls. Its pale belly stays oddly clean, which makes it easier for cooks to defend serving it. The flavor is mild until the aftertaste, when the sea remembers the coal.

Coalstripe Sardinette

common

1–3 SP

A compact silver fish marked by one dark coal stripe from gill to tail. Crews like it because it schools near warm machinery and usually arrives already pointed toward the galley.

Cobalt Ridge Grouper

uncommon

7–16 SP

Cobalt Ridge Groupers wedge themselves into blue mineral shelves and dare the current to move them. Landing one feels like pulling a brick with fins, but the slabs roast beautifully.

Cobalt Wraith Moray

rare

28–60 SP

A narrow moray that slides through wreck ribs like smoke through a pipe. Its blue hide fades nearly invisible in cold water, but the pale gums show a second before it strikes.

Cobalt-Spark Monkfish

uncommon

7–16 SP

A squat monkfish with cobalt sparks flickering around its lure. It waits in shadow until something hungry, curious, or overconfident swims too close.

Coilglow Anchovy

common

1–3 SP

A little anchovy that glows in looped bands when it swims near live wiring. It is best handled with dry gloves and low expectations.

Coldwake Whiting

common

1–3 SP

A clean whiting marked by frost-bright wake streaks. Navigators watch it flee because it usually runs away from the pressure changes crews would rather avoid.

Compass Ice Codlet

common

1–3 SP

A young cod marked by icy compass-needle patterns that never quite point north. Navigators distrust it, which is why they keep catching it.

Compassback Herring

common

1–3 SP

A plain herring marked with a brass-colored compass rose along its back. It points nowhere useful after capture, but deckhands still spin it before choosing dinner.

Compassback Shiner

common

1–3 SP

A bright shiner with a dark cross on its back like a tiny compass rose. It turns north before it turns scared.

Compassnose Fluke

common

1–3 SP

A sand-colored fluke with a nose marking like a compass needle. It is no navigator, but crews still toss one back when they are badly lost.

Copperbelly Smelt

common

1–3 SP

A smelt with a warm copper sheen under its belly. Old crews joke that catching enough of them should pay for repairs. It never does.

Copperbelly Sprat

common

1–3 SP

This sprat flashes like a lost coin when it turns in the work lights. Superstitious deckhands toss the first one back, then quietly keep the next few for the pan.

Copperfin Polliwog

common

1–3 SP

A round little bottom-feeder with bright coppery fins and an anxious wobble. It nibbles oxidation from wreck plating, which gives the flesh a faint mineral tang.

Copperjaw Sablefish

rare

20–54 SP

Copperjaw Sablefish grind vent minerals between heavy metallic plates, leaving a bright bite mark on anything softer than stone. Their jaw scales are dense enough for calibration weights, and their meat tastes faintly of lightning and pennies.

Copperleaf Perchlet

common

1–3 SP

A compact perchlet with copper leaf patches along its sides. The scales tarnish fast once landed, so cooks rush it straight to heat.

Copperpot Codlet

common

1–3 SP

A young codlet with a copper-orange belly that cooks clean and flaky. It is a morale fish more than a money fish.

Copperwake Minnow

common

1–3 SP

This quick minnow flashes copper whenever it darts behind a wreck plank. Sailors used to mistake whole schools of them for spilled coin rolling under the waves.

Coralcutlass Minnow

common

1–3 SP

A quick little reef fish with a blade-bright dorsal edge and the bad habit of hiding under wrecked boarding ladders. Crews consider it edible, if slightly too smug for stew.

Corsair Croaker

common

1–3 SP

A chunky croaker with leather-dark bands and a grouchy rumble in its throat. It sounds like a captain complaining from inside a barrel.

Corsair Ember Eel

uncommon

6–16 SP

A blackened eel with ember veins that pulse when old powder magazines shift nearby. It cooks fast, but the galley keeps a bucket ready.

Creakfin Goby

common

1–3 SP

This wary goby hides under plates and old pier legs, flaring ragged fins whenever the hull groans. It is common, nervous, and surprisingly hard to offend.

Crimson-Orbit Barracuda

rare

25–60 SP

The Crimson-Orbit Barracuda carries red ring marks that seem to circle its body even when it holds still. It strikes fast, bleeds bright, and sells better when the teeth are left on display.

Crownback Sturgeon

rare

28–60 SP

A rare sturgeon carrying crown-like scutes along its spine. It moves with the slow confidence of something that has survived several ages of nets.

Crownless Eclipse Marlin

legendary

115–240 SP

The Crownless Eclipse Marlin is a trophy of impossible dark water, marked with golden rings that seem to swallow work lights rather than reflect them. Old crews say it lost its crown in a fight with the moon and has been hunting bright things ever since.

Crownwake Lanternfish

uncommon

6–16 SP

A lanternfish whose head-spines resemble a ruined crown. Its golden lures draw in smaller fish and the occasional treasure-hungry fool.

Currentglass Trout

uncommon

6–16 SP

A glassy trout with bright current lines under its skin. Navigators watch its fins to guess which way the deep is lying today.

Cutlassfin Sardine

common

1–3 SP

A lean sardine with one curved dorsal fin that sweeps back like a little cutlass. It darts through rope shadows and tastes better than its dramatic profile suggests.

Cutrope Codlet

common

1–3 SP

A small codlet patterned with rope-colored curls and clipped fins. It follows snapped rigging through the silt and makes a sturdy little galley catch.

Davitline Dory

common

1–3 SP

Rope-like stripes cross this pale dory as if it grew up tangled in lifeboat davits. It drifts toward moving light, making it easy bait for hungry crews.

Deckchair Dab

common

0–2 SP

A flat little dab with faded canvas striping, the Deckchair Dab hides against wreck silt like a collapsed lounge chair. It is easy to overlook until it blinks. Historians hate the nickname, cooks love the shape, and nobody wants to think too hard about why it prefers promenade debris.

Deckcoin Dace

common

1–3 SP

A plain dace with round gold flecks that look better than they appraise. It has fooled enough rookie crews to earn a place in pirate folklore.

Deckwash Dartfish

common

1–3 SP

A narrow dartfish spotted with foam-white flecks, as if scrubbed by a stormy deckwash. It moves quick but panics into nets with heroic consistency.

Dockdust Perchlet

common

1–3 SP

This dusty little perchlet noses through pilings and old silt, taking on the color of whatever harbor it survives. Galley crews like it because it cleans quickly and complains only with its eyes.

Docklight Minnow

common

1–3 SP

The Docklight Minnow gathers around submarine running lights and broken pier lamps, mistaking any steady glow for a safe current. It is too small to impress the crew, but its amber cheek lanterns make it easy to spot in a net and easier to trade than empty water.

Dockmist Flounder

common

1–3 SP

A flat muddy flounder that looks like a dock shadow come loose. It buries itself whenever engine noise gets too close.

Dockrum Dab

common

1–2 SP

A flat little dab stained the color of old casks and harbor mud. It hides so well on rotten planks that half the catch is usually an accident.

Dockshadow Fluke

common

1–3 SP

A flat fluke mottled like the underside of a dock at midnight. It waits on the bottom until a careless net convinces it that hiding was not enough.

Doubloon Dace

common

1–3 SP

A small dace freckled with coin-bright scales that flash like lost pocket change. Crews like the look of it better than the payout, which is usually how treasure starts lying.

Driftcurrent Sardine

common

1–3 SP

A restless sardine that lets minor currents carry it for miles. It is common fare for both crews and things crews would rather not meet.

Driftglow Mackerellet

common

1–3 SP

A young mackerel with a weak blue glow that comes and goes like a faulty deck light. It is better at looking promising than being valuable.

Duskdot Killifish

common

1–2 SP

A small killifish freckled with dim blue dusk-spots. The dots fade after capture, which makes veteran crews claim the fish keeps its real color for the sea.

Duskspine Mackerel

uncommon

4–13 SP

Duskspine Mackerel travel in narrow bands where sunlight has never been, each back lined with violet hooks that flash when the school turns. They bake cleanly, though the bones keep a faint electric snap.

Duskspine Pipefish

uncommon

5–13 SP

A narrow pipefish with purple dusk-bands along its spine and a snout built for sipping minerals from cracked coral. It is small, delicate, and oddly fragrant once baked over clean heat.

Ember Keel Eel

uncommon

6–16 SP

A hot-striped eel that nests near wrecked fireboxes and warm cannon slag. Its keel glows like banked coals when it twists in the net.

Emberfin Pikelet

uncommon

6–16 SP

A sharp little pike whose orange fins glow like embers under black water. It strikes above its size and roasts with a faint smoky sweetness.

Emberglass Cuttlefish

uncommon

6–16 SP

A glassy cuttlefish full of ember-bright specks. Its body looks fragile, but it vanishes in a smoky burst when startled.

Emberglass Searobin

uncommon

6–16 SP

The Emberglass Searobin spreads warm orange fins like blown glass cooling in dark water. It skitters near hot stone and tastes faintly sweet when baked.

Emberstripe Vent Fry

uncommon

6–16 SP

Emberstripe Vent Fry school around thermal cracks, flashing orange whenever the water turns hot enough to boil a careless glove. Their scales hold a faint mineral heat after capture, making them useful to cooks, engineers, and anyone trying to prove the deep has a sense of humor.

First Class Fluke

common

1–3 SP

A pale fluke traced with faint gold filigree, somehow both muddy and elegant. It hides flat against wreck silt until the pattern gives it away.

Flagshadow Fluke

common

1–3 SP

A sandy fluke whose back carries dark blotches like torn flags. It vanishes against wreck canvas until a hungry crew gets lucky.

Flickerstripe Tomcod

common

1–3 SP

A small tomcod with broken pale stripes that flicker when it turns. The flash is not magic, but it is enough to make the net crew blink.

Flooded Orchestra Anchovy

common

1–3 SP

Thin dark lines run along this anchovy like ruined strings. It schools in nervous rhythm around old music-room debris, then crisps nicely in a pan.

Foamcap Mullet

common

1–3 SP

A squat mullet with pale speckles across its head like sea foam. It grazes on soft algae mats and reacts to danger by pretending very hard to be a rock.

Foamglass Goby

common

1–3 SP

A squat goby dusted with frosted blue-white speckles. It lives where wave foam and pressure-glass collect in quiet pockets.

Foamline Herring

common

1–3 SP

A silver herring marked by a white line like sea foam. It gathers near submarine vents where bubbles confuse predators.

Foamspit Dab

common

1–3 SP

A flat dab with pale bubbles around its mouth and sand-colored fins. It looks unimpressed by capture, cooking, and most human decisions.

Fogscale Pollocklet

common

1–3 SP

A small gray pollock that seems dusted in sea fog even after it is hauled aboard. Galley crews like it because it flakes easily and never starts arguments about seasoning.

Frostbite Mackerel

uncommon

4–12 SP

A cold-running mackerel with white-cracked scales that hiss when they hit a warm pan. Its flesh holds a clean brine snap, provided the cook keeps the first thaw slow.

Frostgill Snapper

uncommon

6–16 SP

Frostgill Snappers breathe in cold seams that crust their gill plates with pale mineral rime. Once warmed, the fillets turn sweet and flaky, making them a welcome catch after too many salvage scraps.

Frostpulse Lanternfish

uncommon

5–16 SP

A cold-lit lanternfish that pulses blue-white when music or sonar touches it. The glow fades after capture, leaving a clean, crisp meat prized by careful cooks.

Galley Butterfish

common

1–3 SP

A soft gold butterfish prized by cooks because it stays tender even after a rough pressure boil.

Gaugefin Minnow

common

1–3 SP

A tiny minnow with needle-thin fins that twitch like compass needles around active sonar. Navigators keep one in a jar when the instruments start telling jokes.

Ghost Current Manta

rare

30–58 SP

A pale manta that rides currents no gauge can prove exist. It leaves the water behind it colder and strangely quiet.

Ghostplate Halibut

rare

24–58 SP

A rare pale halibut with armorlike plates that reflect light in ghostly sheets. It hides flat against wreck floors, waiting for the world to forget it has a mouth.

Ghostreef Angler

rare

25–55 SP

This pale angler drifts through coral ruins with a cold blue lure. More than one pirate followed that light and found only teeth.

Ghostwake Cuttlefish

uncommon

5–15 SP

A pale cuttlefish that swims in the wake of ships that are not there. Its ink blooms into brief shapes of sails, bones, and wrong directions.

Gilded Ballroom Coelacanth

rare

28–60 SP

This ancient coelacanth wears chandelier-bright markings across midnight scales. The crew jokes it is overdressed until it opens its mouth.

Glacierglass Ray

uncommon

6–16 SP

A ray with wings like fractured blue glass. Its tissue chills sample trays through gloves, giving scientists a beautiful reason to complain.

Glassfin Needlefish

uncommon

5–14 SP

Glassfin Needlefish are almost invisible until the sub lights catch the blue line of organs running through their bodies. Crews prize them for their clear fins and needle bones, which flex without snapping and make excellent calibration samples for pressure-sensitive gear.

Glassjaw Current Eel

uncommon

6–16 SP

The Glassjaw Current Eel swims with a blue-clear jaw that flickers when the sub engines hum. It is edible, but every bite feels like chewing a storm warning.

Grand Staircase Goby

common

1–3 SP

A squat little goby with gold scrollwork and mahogany bands across its sides, the Grand Staircase Goby looks far too fancy for the mud it lives in. It nests near ornate wreckage and steals tiny polished chips for shelter. Historians call it evidence of the deep preserving memory; hungry crew call it dinner with airs.

Grayglass Mackerel

common

1–3 SP

A mackerel with smoky glass bands over its back. It is sturdy, common, and exactly as unimpressed by danger as it looks.

Grayline Sprat

common

1–3 SP

A thin sprat with a soft gray line running straight down its side. It arrives in quick flashes and leaves behind very little drama.

Grayvent Smelt

common

1–3 SP

A smoky smelt that drifts near low thermal vents, wearing the color of ash and cold metal. It is small, quick, and better fresh.

Gunwale Goby

common

1–2 SP

A blunt goby with a dark stripe like a ship rail and rust-colored freckles. It clings to wreck edges until startled directly into a bucket.

Gutterlight Goby

common

1–3 SP

A goby that follows faint light along wreck gutters and drainage seams. It is usually the first fish seen after a hatch opens.

Harborcoin Minnow

common

1–3 SP

A bright little minnow whose round scales flash like loose change under dock lights. It is common fare, but crews still count a net full of them as a small mercy on long voyages.

Hullkiss Minnow

common

1–3 SP

A small minnow marked by dark scrapes from brushing too close to moving metal. Finding one near the hull means the lights are attracting dinner again.

Iceberg Glass Minnow

common

1–3 SP

This tiny minnow looks half-frozen even in black water, with glassy fins that fracture lantern light into pale blue shards. Crews keep one eye on it because schools of them often drift ahead of colder currents. Scientists like the specimen; cooks like that it still fries cleanly once it stops trying to be an ice cube.

Iceberg Shadow Shiner

common

1–3 SP

A small shiner with jagged white flanks like reflected ice. Its schools gather where the water turns suddenly colder, making it useful before it becomes dinner.

Iongill Mackerel

uncommon

6–16 SP

A swift mackerel with violet ion-bright gills. It tastes faintly mineral and arrives in bursts whenever the instruments start to buzz.

Ironbelly Stickleback

common

1–3 SP

A prickly stickleback with a dark metallic belly and more confidence than mass. It rattles in a bucket like loose screws.

Irongill Barracuda

uncommon

7–16 SP

A barracuda with dark metal plates around its gills. It bites hooks in half often enough to make the crew take it personally.

Ironveil Gulper

rare

22–60 SP

A rare gulper fish draped in dark metallic skin that folds over its jaw like a torn veil. It swallows bait, hook, and warning all at once, leaving only a dull iron taste in the bucket.

Jollywake Sprat

common

1–2 SP

A tiny sprat with bold tail markings like a parade flag. It leaves a bright little wake behind it, which is useful because there is not much fish to look at otherwise.

Keelcoin Mullet

common

1–3 SP

A silvery mullet with dull coin-flecks along its belly and a dark stripe like a ship keel. It is plain eating, but crews still check every scale for treasure.

Keelhaul Kipper

common

0–2 SP

A narrow kipper with a black belly stripe and ragged fins. It survives by hugging keels, which makes catching one feel mildly unfair.

Keelstripe Mackerel

common

1–3 SP

A slick mackerel with a dark belly stripe sharp enough to resemble a ship's keel. It runs fast in the current and vanishes into wreck shadows when the lights swing wide.

Kelp-Saber Shiner

common

1–3 SP

A bright little shiner that cuts through pirate coves with a kelp-ridged dorsal fin like a tiny saber. Crews joke that it looks dangerous until it lands in the pan.

Kelpbutton Sprat

common

1–3 SP

A squat little sprat with button-like scale knots along its flank. It hides in torn kelp and panics at the first ping of sonar.

Kelpwire Sardine

common

1–3 SP

A small sardine traced with a thin kelp-colored line that looks almost wired into its scales. It travels in tight schools around drifting weeds and loose cables.

Lampdust Anchovy

common

1–3 SP

A tiny anchovy glittering with warm lamp-colored specks. Crews look for it around old beacons where plankton gathers in the glow.

Lampwake Pollock

common

1–3 SP

This pollock follows the warm glow behind hull lamps and maintenance skiffs. Its pale flank streak makes it easy to spot and easier to cook.

Lantern-Gill Guppy

common

1–2 SP

A tiny guppy whose warm gill-glow flickers under wreck planks like a lantern in a porthole. It looks dramatic for something that fits in a spoon.

Lanterncrumb Minnow

common

1–3 SP

A tiny minnow with scattered pinpricks of warm light along its flank. In groups, they resemble crumbs dropped from some much larger lantern.

Lanterncrumb Smelt

common

1–2 SP

A tiny smelt with warm pinprick lights scattered along its belly. The glow fades quickly after capture, leaving only a faint buttery shimmer and a smell like rain on a hot deck.

Lanternhook Smelt

common

1–3 SP

A slim smelt with a warm hook-shaped lure dangling from its chin. The glow is barely enough to see by, but it makes the fish look like it came prepared for night watch.

Lanternjaw Snipefish

uncommon

5–13 SP

Lanternjaw Snipefish carry a narrow glow under the mouth, luring plankton and impatient fingers alike. They are awkward to clean but worth keeping when the voyage needs cheap heat and protein.

Lanternlip Anchovy

common

1–3 SP

Lanternlip Anchovies flash tiny amber mouths while feeding on specks stirred up by the hull. They are common enough to be overlooked, but a fresh catch can brighten a bait tank like a handful of nervous sparks.

Lanternscale Dory

common

1–3 SP

A small dory with warm lantern-shaped scale patches. It glows just enough to betray itself to hungry things.

Lanternwake Loach

common

1–3 SP

A rope-whiskered loach with small lantern-gold spots running down its sides. It follows warm hull lights, hoping the shadows there have food.

Lifeboat Lanternfish

common

1–3 SP

The Lifeboat Lanternfish carries a small brass glow under its jaw and pale sides striped like old rescue ropes. It gathers around weak lights and seems to point its nose toward safer water, though nobody trusts it completely. Navigators like to catch one before a long drift, just in case luck can be cooked.

Little Valvefish

common

1–3 SP

A round little fish with a brass-colored cheek mark that looks suspiciously mechanical. It is still fish, not salvage, and the galley insists on that distinction.

Lowtide Capelin

common

1–3 SP

A slim capelin that follows sinking tides into deeper lanes. It arrives in numbers and leaves almost no story behind.

Mapcurl Flounder

common

1–3 SP

A flatfish patterned like a soaked treasure chart. Unfortunately, every route on its hide seems to lead directly back to dinner.

Mapspot Perchlet

common

1–3 SP

A palm-sized perchlet mottled with markings that look like islands, routes, and one very smug X. None of the spots match a real chart, but every crew checks anyway.

Marconi Wire Smelt

common

1–3 SP

Coppery lines run along this smelt like drowned wireless wire. It gives off tiny static flashes when startled, which is rude behavior for something so pan-sized.

Mastcoin Smelt

common

1–3 SP

This needle-thin smelt carries a line of coin-bright scales under a shadowy back. It gathers beneath fallen masts like it is waiting to be paid.

Mastshadow Smelt

common

1–3 SP

This small smelt gathers where broken masts cast long shadows on the seabed. Its flavor is mild, but every catch comes with a whiff of old rope.

Midnight Ice Anchovy

common

1–2 SP

The Midnight Ice Anchovy is barely more than a cold glint with a mouth. It swarms along boundary currents where warm water gives up and the deep turns sharp. Navigators mark its schools on bad nights because wherever it gathers, the sea is usually about to change its mind.

Midnight Vent Coelacanth

rare

26–58 SP

A dark coelacanth from the black-water vents, ancient and deliberate. Its fins move like old machinery remembering a command.

Mirrorbelly Herring

uncommon

4–11 SP

Mirrorbelly Herring reflect whatever swims beneath them, a trick that makes nets look empty until the fish start knocking together. They are small, clean, and excellent for quick galley rations.

Mirrorjaw Ribbonfish

rare

20–52 SP

A long silver ribbonfish with a jaw polished like a broken signal mirror. It twists around searchlights until the beam seems to come from every direction at once.

Mistflag Cuttlefish

uncommon

5–15 SP

A gray cuttlefish that fans its fins like shredded flags in fog. It inks the water with a smoke screen worthy of a pirate escape.

Moonhook Opalfish

uncommon

6–16 SP

A round opalescent fish with fins curved like crescent hooks. It shines brightest when the sub lights are about to fail.

Moonhook Skimmer

uncommon

4–12 SP

Moonhook Skimmers drift above wreck fields on crescent fins, turning in slow arcs as if following tides no instrument can detect. Their pearly fin hooks are fragile but valuable, and old crews claim a skimmer crossing the bow means the current is about to change.

Moonlit Corsair Ray

uncommon

6–16 SP

A dark blue ray marked with silver crescents and little gold trim. It glides under pirate wrecks like a moon shadow with wings.

Moonmast Medaka

common

1–2 SP

A pale medaka with a tall little fin that glints like a moonlit mast. It gathers near quiet wrecks when the sea finally stops boasting.

Moonmilk Anchovy

common

1–3 SP

A pale anchovy with a soft shine like moonlight stirred into milk. It arrives in thin silver streaks around the hull lamps and vanishes when larger shadows lean close.

Moonpool Perchlet

common

1–3 SP

A round-eyed perchlet often seen under open moonpools. Its scales reflect deck lights in soft broken rings.

Moonwake Flounder

common

1–3 SP

The Moonwake Flounder leaves a faint pale trail when it bolts over black sand, like a miniature wake under starlight. Navigators watch its panic direction because it usually flees away from pressure shifts. It is not wise, exactly, but it has survived by being scared in the right direction.

Mudbutton Smelt

common

1–3 SP

A stubby little smelt with round mud-colored spots along its side. It tastes better than it looks, which is the kindest thing most crews can say about it.

Mudglass Guppy

common

1–2 SP

Mudglass Guppies are plain little survivors that slip through silt clouds and filter vents with equal confidence. They are not impressive, but their cloudy fins make them easy to spot in a bucket and useful as everyday rations or bait.

Mudhalo Flounder

common

1–3 SP

A flat flounder marked with muddy rings like old sonar ghosts. It waits under silt until the whole seafloor seems to blink.

Mudstripe Blenny

common

0–2 SP

A stubby blenny painted in muddy bands, usually found sulking inside old pipe mouths. It is not glamorous, but a hungry galley can make something warm out of almost anything.

Murkstripe Killifish

common

1–3 SP

A hardy killifish painted in muddy stripes. It thrives in water too cloudy for prettier creatures to make bad choices.

Museum-Glass Goby

common

1–3 SP

A translucent goby often found inside cracked display cases and observation domes. It treats every wreck like a quiet exhibit.

Mutiny Mackerellet

common

1–3 SP

A little mackerel with a rebellious red stripe and a habit of turning against its own school. It is fast, flashy, and usually worth only supper.

Nebulafin Viperfish

uncommon

7–16 SP

A needle-toothed viperfish with fins that shimmer like a storm of stars trapped under glass. Crews prize it for the strange blue oil that beads along the bones when cooked.

Needlecap Lanternfish

uncommon

5–14 SP

Needlecap Lanternfish carry warm pinlights down both flanks and a sharp crest that helps them cut through tight pressure seams. Crews save the photophores for low-power markers when batteries are sulking.

Needlekelp Stickleback

common

1–3 SP

A prickly stickleback that nests in needlekelp. Nets come back full of tiny spines whenever one gets irritated.

Needlewhisker Smelt

common

1–3 SP

A slim smelt with whisker-thin feelers that twitch at every sonar ping. It threads through cable tangles with annoying grace and cooks down cleanly.

North Atlantic Herring

common

1–3 SP

Plain, cold, and dependable, the North Atlantic Herring runs in quick silver schools through the Titanic theme waters. Its dark back nearly vanishes under midnight swells, while its bright flank flashes like moonlight on ice. It is common enough to feed a crew and dignified enough to make them quiet for a bite.

Oakbarrel Catfish

uncommon

5–14 SP

A broad catfish with barrel-brown patches and ropey whiskers. It lounges under wreck timbers like it owns the tavern.

Obsidian Crown Angler

rare

24–58 SP

Obsidian Crown Anglers carry black mineral plates polished smooth by pressure and time, with a red lure bright enough to make a crew forget good judgment. Finding one usually means the sub has crossed into old, rich, and unfriendly water.

Obsidian Crown Snapper

rare

26–60 SP

A heavy snapper armored with black crown spines and a bite that leaves half-moon marks in steel bait cages. The meat is dense, oily, and worth the extra knuckle distance.

Oilglint Scad

common

1–3 SP

This common scad carries a dark rainbow sheen like oil on rainwater. It is safe enough to eat, though cooks rinse it twice to stop the crew from making jokes.

Opal Rift Oarfish

rare

30–60 SP

A ribboning oarfish with opal fins that seem to tear color out of the dark. Its arrival usually means a deep current has opened nearby.

Opalglass Skate

rare

21–55 SP

A flat skate with opalescent wings that turn cloudy whenever predators circle nearby. Its broad cuts bake clean and sweet, though the bones glitter in the dish like crushed signal glass.

Opaljaw Oarfish

rare

28–60 SP

A long oarfish with an opal sheen along the jaw and crest. It drifts vertically in the gloom until disturbed, then unwinds like a ribbon of treasure.

Pale Current Smelt

common

1–3 SP

Pale Current Smelt ride gentle pressure streams in loose silver schools. A few in the net rarely change a voyage, but crews like them because their blue side stripe points toward the current before instruments catch up.

Pale Rudder Dace

common

1–3 SP

A pale dace with a tail shaped like a bent rudder. It drifts behind larger creatures, borrowing their wake to avoid wasting strength.

Pale Signal Troutlet

common

1–3 SP

A juvenile trout that flickers when startled, like a weak signal lamp. The flash is brief, but sometimes enough to mark a school.

Pale Vent Char

common

1–3 SP

A pale char that hugs the edges of lukewarm vents and mineral seeps. Its skin is soft, its bones are fine, and its presence usually means the rocks are still breathing.

Palecoil Eellet

common

0–2 SP

A young pale eel that coils into any cup, boot, or intake screen left unattended. It is cookable, technically, which is the kindest review it gets.

Palehook Anchovy

common

1–2 SP

A narrow pale fish with a jaw curved like a tiny boarding hook. It arrives in nervous clusters around hull lights and disappears the instant a larger shadow crosses the beam.

Palehook Mackerel

common

1–3 SP

A clean silver mackerel with a pale hook mark near the gill. Cooks like it because it behaves like dinner instead of a mystery.

Palevalve Sprat

common

1–3 SP

A small sprat with shell-pale plates along its belly. It hides among open clams and usually gives itself away by flashing silver at the wrong moment.

Pearlbelly Anchovy

common

1–3 SP

A fast little anchovy with a pale belly that gleams like a loose pearl in dim water. Schools of them scatter around the hull like living static.

Pearlscale Cutlassfish

uncommon

6–15 SP

Pearlscale Cutlassfish bend like living blades, each scale catching a different ghost of light. They dry into excellent strips for long voyages, provided nobody bleeds on the cutting board first.

Pearlwake Swordfish

rare

30–60 SP

A rare swordfish that leaves a white shimmer like crushed pearl in its wake. Its bill has opened more nets than most knives.

Pegleg Perchlet

common

0–2 SP

A stubborn perchlet with one stiff fin that knocks against hull plates like a wooden peg. It tastes better than it swims, which is not a high bar.

Pipewake Codlet

common

1–3 SP

A chunky codlet that follows the warm wake of pipes, vents, and tired engines. Its flesh is plain, firm, and welcome when the sea offers nothing grander.

Plankbite Perch

common

1–3 SP

A stout perch with woodgrain patches and a mouth built for nibbling rotten boards. The crew jokes that it comes pre-seasoned with sawdust.

Planklight Pistolfish

common

1–3 SP

A wood-striped pistolfish that snaps its little claw like a deck pistol in bad weather. Its lantern spots make it easy to find and hard to respect.

Plankstripe Dory

common

1–3 SP

A rounded dory marked with bands like broken deck boards. It mills around wrecks where old timber sheds salt, nails, and rumors.

Plankton Parrotfish

common

1–3 SP

A loud, bright reef grazer that chips at barnacled planks with its beak. It is colorful enough for morale and cheap enough for soup.

Porthole Pilchard

common

1–3 SP

The Porthole Pilchard has round brass-ring markings along its sides, each one shining like a tiny cabin window. It schools near torn wall panels and fractured glass, flashing in and out like lights from a ship that never reached morning. It is common, cookable, and unsettlingly decorative.

Porthole Pinfish

common

1–3 SP

A small pinfish with a round black eye-ring like a submarine porthole. It pecks at algae on wreck glass and glares at everything larger than itself.

Porthole Pollocklet

common

1–3 SP

Round brass-ring spots make this pollocklet look like a row of tiny portholes. Old captains say it peeks back when a sub's lights pass over it.

Porthole Prism Carp

uncommon

5–15 SP

Blue prism scales sit inside brass porthole rings along this carp's sides. It looks like several cabins learned how to swim together.

Portside Sprat

common

1–2 SP

A nervous sprat that schools along the port side of sunken pirate hulks. Its scales taste faintly of brine, cannon smoke, and poor decisions.

Powderflash Pilchard

common

1–3 SP

A small pilchard with orange specks that blink like spent powder sparks. It streaks away from noise, then forgets why it was fleeing.

Powdergill Guppy

common

0–2 SP

A nervous guppy with soot-dark patches around its gills, as if it has been breathing blackpowder smoke. It is small, twitchy, and best cooked before anyone names it.

Powderglass Trout

uncommon

6–16 SP

Smoky glass scales make this trout look half-made from blasted lantern panes. It appears after distant booms and vanishes before the echo fades.

Pressure-Pearl Perch

common

1–3 SP

A small perch with pearl-like pressure nodes along its jaw. The nodes click softly when the depth changes.

Pressurebell Snapper

uncommon

7–16 SP

A heavy snapper dented by pressure and plated with bronze around the head. It bites like a snapped cable and refuses to die politely.

Prismback Needleperch

uncommon

5–15 SP

A lean perch with a narrow back that breaks light into sharp color. It darts around survey beams and is tricky to net without slicing the line.

Prismjaw Pipefish

uncommon

6–15 SP

Prismjaw Pipefish have glassy snouts that split lamp light into little warning colors. A careful cook can soften the jaw cartilage into a bright stock, but careless hands leave the galley smelling like hot pennies.

Prismscale Drum

uncommon

7–16 SP

A round drum fish tiled in prismatic scales. When it turns, the hull lights break across it in flashes of color.

Prismwake Pike

uncommon

6–16 SP

A sharp pike with prism plates that split searchlight beams into violent color. It darts through wake turbulence like a thrown shard.

Promenade Perchlet

common

1–3 SP

The Promenade Perchlet cruises open wreck corridors in neat little rows, flashing cream and gold like sunlight that should not be down there. It is a tidy, mild fish, popular with cooks because it cleans easily and with romantics because it looks like it remembers walking weather.

Promenade Rail Perch

common

1–3 SP

Gold rail-like stripes make this perch look better dressed than most of the crew. It cruises open wreck corridors and cooks into a mild, tidy meal.

Quartzfin Trout

uncommon

6–16 SP

A bright trout with fins faceted like violet quartz. It flickers through cold water as if the pressure itself sharpened its edges.

Quartzscale Drum

uncommon

6–16 SP

A heavy drum fish armored in cloudy quartz-like scales. Its low call rattles loose gauges before anyone sees it.

Radiated Springfield

common

3–10 SP

this is an irradiated yellow fish with too many eyes from the highly polluted Lake Springfield . it found it's way into the open ocean by way of a small stream leading to the Missouri River out to sea. Not good for eating.

Redsignal Cardinalfish

uncommon

4–12 SP

Redsignal Cardinalfish pulse a warning glow from behind their ribs, usually before bigger shadows arrive. Crews keep them for supper, but the smart ones check the sonar twice after landing one.

Redthread Sprat

common

1–2 SP

A narrow sprat marked by a single red line from gill to tail. Crews say the stripe points home, which is useful folklore and useless navigation.

Redwake Saber Ray

rare

30–60 SP

A rare saber ray whose crimson fin marks look like fresh current wounds. It slices through nets, then settles into the hold with the terrible dignity of a blade that can swim.

Reefblade Snapper

uncommon

7–16 SP

This red snapper carries a dorsal fin sharp enough to split soft coral. Pirates prized it because every meal looked like a warning.

Relicglass Nautilus

rare

22–60 SP

Relicglass Nautilus shells look blown from ancient windows, each chamber holding a different shade of trapped abyssal light. Scientists call them living pressure archives; salvagers call them a payday that might shatter if you sneeze nearby.

Rippleback Sardine

common

1–3 SP

A compact sardine whose back shimmers with tiny wave-shaped stripes. It is quick, ordinary, and welcome in the pan after a long run through empty water.

Rivet Halo Herring

common

1–3 SP

A herring with a crescent of bright rivet spots behind its gills. It slips through hull wounds as if small fasteners still mean safety down here.

Rivet-Eye Shiner

common

1–3 SP

A polished little shiner with dark gill spots like rivets set into silver. It flashes around hull repairs and seems to enjoy the sound of loose tools.

Rivethead Blenny

common

1–2 SP

A blunt blenny with round metal-colored bumps across its head. It wedges itself between hull rivets and acts like it paid rent there.

Rivetstripe Dace

common

1–3 SP

The Rivetstripe Dace is a darting little fish with rows of dark spots that look like fastened hull plates. It is no threat, but it survives in places that chew up softer creatures, sliding between jagged seams and bolt heads. Military crews respect anything small enough to live inside a wound in the ship.

Ropeburn Sardine

common

1–3 SP

A tough little sardine with a tan stripe down its side like old rope rubbed raw. It travels in tight schools and tastes best when cooked before anyone names it.

Ropeburn Whiting

common

1–3 SP

Amber bands wrap this whiting like rough rope marks. It often slips free at the last second, earning quiet curses from hungry deckhands.

Ropecoil Raylet

common

1–3 SP

A small raylet with rope-coil patterns across its wings. It settles over buried tackle and waits for someone else to do the swimming.

Ropewake Rasbora

common

1–2 SP

A wiry rasbora that follows the slow wake of old ropes and cable drifts. Its tail flicks like a knot coming undone.

Ropewhisker Codlet

common

1–3 SP

A little codlet with two whiskers that twist like wet rigging rope. It noses through wreck knots and cable nests, collecting more attitude than value.

Rosewood Staircase Trout

uncommon

6–16 SP

A trout with rosewood color and golden stair-scroll fins. It looks carved from a memory of the grand staircase, then bolts like any other fish.

Ruby-Gill Saberfin

rare

28–60 SP

The Ruby-Gill Saberfin cuts through deep water with a dorsal blade that glints before the body appears. Its red gill plates are prized by cooks and collectors alike, though the fish has a habit of biting the hook clean in half before surrendering.

Rudderwake Sprat

common

1–3 SP

A sprat that clings to the wake behind rudders and diving fins. If they scatter, something larger is changing course.

Rumbarrel Anchovy

common

1–3 SP

A plump anchovy ringed in amber bands like barrel hoops. It smells faintly sweet when cooked, which is enough to start arguments about whether the sea has been drinking.

Rumfoam Pollocklet

common

1–3 SP

A small pollocklet trailed by amber bubbles that smell like a wrecked tavern. The crew insists the foam cooks off. The crew is optimistic.

Rustfin Codlet

common

1–3 SP

A young cod with fins stained the color of oxidized metal. It feeds around old bolts and scraps, picking life from decay.

Rustgill Herring

common

1–3 SP

A common herring with rusty color blooming around the gills. It often schools near corroded wreck edges, as if bad metal gives the water flavor.

Rusthalo Tilefish

uncommon

7–16 SP

A squat tilefish that nests in the orange dust around fallen station plates. The rust-colored halo behind its gills is harmless, but it marks a fish that has survived close to wreckage.

Rustscale Dace

common

0–2 SP

A narrow dace with rusty scale edges from living among iron wreckage. It is tougher than it looks, which is both a survival trait and a cooking complaint.

Rustscale Minnow

common

1–2 SP

Rustscale Minnows gather around wreck metal and come up smelling faintly of old bolts. Their coppery scales are mostly decorative, but engineers still joke that enough of them might patch a leak if everyone believed hard enough.

Ruststripe Dace

common

1–3 SP

This dace carries rusty orange lines from nosing around old hull seams. The color looks grim, but the meat cooks mild and clean.

Sabrelight Snapper

uncommon

7–16 SP

A red-armored snapper with cheek plates that flash like drawn blades. Catching one is easy only after it is done trying to duel the hook.

Sailbutton Sprat

common

1–2 SP

A small sprat dotted with round brass marks that resemble buttons torn from an old sailcoat. It is cheap eating, but it carries the whole flavor of a storm-soaked deck.

Sailpatch Shiner

common

1–3 SP

A bright shiner patterned like patched canvas sails. It flashes white and blue in the lamp beams, then gives up immediately once the net closes.

Sailscar Scad

common

1–3 SP

A blue-silver scad with pale scars like tiny torn sails. It runs in nervous schools around old anchor points and cooks up clean.

Sallowfin Dory

common

1–3 SP

The Sallowfin Dory is an oval, mild-tasting catch with yellow fins and a permanently worried face. It is easy to cook and hard to brag about.

Saltbutton Herring

common

1–2 SP

A button-eyed herring with a briny smell that gets into everything. It is common enough to be boring until the day the nets come up empty without it.

Saltbutton Minnow

common

1–2 SP

A tiny table fish marked with hard white salt pearls along its flank. Crews joke that finding one means the sea has paid in loose change, but the meat cooks clean and sweet when supplies run thin.

Saltflag Goby

common

1–2 SP

A tiny goby with a torn flag of a dorsal fin and the confidence of a mutineer. It claims puddles, crates, and occasionally ladles as its kingdom.

Saltpin Shiner

common

1–3 SP

A bright little shiner with needle-thin fins. Its glitter can briefly outline the edge of a hidden current.

Sandbutton Fluke

common

1–3 SP

A flat fluke dotted with pale marks that look pressed into the sand. It hides by pretending to be seabed until the net proves more patient than the fish.

Scarlet Sailfin

uncommon

6–16 SP

Its high red fin unfurls like a privateer's sail when startled. Seeing one in clear water feels like spotting a flag on the horizon.

Scarlet Vent Angelfish

rare

22–58 SP

A heat-blushed angelfish that grazes where mineral smoke rolls out of the vents. Its fins redden before a thermal surge, making it a prized catch for cooks and cautious pilots alike.

Second Watch Silverside

common

1–3 SP

This slim silverside flashes with tiny watch-face speckles under lantern light. Navigators treat its school patterns like nervous little clocks counting down bad water.

Shipbell Sardine

common

1–3 SP

Gold bell spots trail down this sardine's flank. When a school turns together, the shimmer looks like a silent alarm from a sunken watch deck.

Siltbelly Perch

common

1–3 SP

A squat perch with a tan belly from rooting through soft silt. It is plain, sturdy, and exactly the sort of fish that keeps a voyage from feeling empty.

Siltbutton Minnow

common

1–3 SP

A tiny minnow that picks at soft silt until its round brown spots look like buttons pressed into clay. It is common galley fare, but a clean net of them means the bottom is healthy.

Siltglass Loach

common

0–2 SP

A soft loach with smoky transparent skin and a talent for disappearing into disturbed silt. It is slippery in the hand and stubborn in the stew.

Siltglass Minnow

common

1–3 SP

A small translucent minnow with silt-colored bones visible through its glassy sides. Crews call it a lucky catch because it proves the water is still gentle enough for ordinary life.

Siltstripe Mudsnapper

common

1–3 SP

A blunt little bottom-feeder that packs itself into cloudy silt whenever engines pass overhead. It tastes better than it looks, provided the cook scrapes away the mud crust first.

Siltwhisker Loach

common

1–3 SP

Siltwhisker Loaches nose along the bottom with little barbels, tasting mud, rust, and whatever the crew just dropped. They are reliable catches in dull water and a quiet warning that the seabed is closer than the pilot thinks.

Silver Abyss Sailfish

rare

32–60 SP

A rare sailfish with a blade-bright bill and a silver dorsal sail. It cuts across floodlights like a living knife.

Silver Vein Lanternperch

uncommon

5–16 SP

This perch carries silver vein marks that pulse near its lantern glands. It gathers around faint music and leaves the water glittering after capture.

Silver Whistle Pike

uncommon

6–16 SP

This long pike has a brass whistle-shaped snout and a body marked by pressure dents. When it thrashes, the hook line sings through its teeth.

Silverglass Raylet

uncommon

5–14 SP

Silverglass Raylets flex like tiny mirrors in the worklights, scattering the sub's beams into false movement. Their delicate wings are edible if handled quickly, but the crew mostly prizes them for the way they reveal nearby current shifts.

Silverhook Pike

uncommon

6–16 SP

A sleek pike with a hook-bright flash along its jaw. It circles bait like a duelist, waiting for the exact wrong moment to strike.

Silvermote Hakelet

common

1–3 SP

A young hake that glitters with tiny silver motes when startled. Most of that shine is panic, but it still looks fine in the galley light.

Smokescale Herringling

common

1–3 SP

A quiet herringling marked with soot-dark scales along its back. It gathers near warm vents and engine wash, where the water tastes faintly of metal and yesterday.

Softshell Dab

common

1–3 SP

A soft, sandy dab that folds around a hook like wet paper. It is ugly in a deeply practical way.

Sonar-Dot Dace

common

1–3 SP

A pale dace marked with round blue dots that brighten under sonar pings. It looks as if the ocean put test lights on a fish.

Sonarblue Razorfin

uncommon

7–16 SP

A knife-shaped fish that flashes blue when sonar rolls across its scales. Nets come back sliced if the crew gets lazy.

Sonarblush Cuttlefish

uncommon

5–15 SP

A cuttlefish whose skin blooms in target-like rings when pinged. The colors are beautiful, and the animal is furious about them.

Sootgill Gudgeon

common

0–2 SP

A smudged gray gudgeon that thrives around warm exhaust vents and black smokers. Its gills stay permanently dark, as if it has been breathing a chimney.

Sootscale Sprat

common

1–3 SP

The Sootscale Sprat feeds near warm vent ash and old engine discharge, leaving its scales darkened like burned metal. Crews treat it as a plain meal-catch: not rare, not pretty, but proof that something living still moves through the murk.

Sparkplug Smelt

common

1–3 SP

A small smelt with bright nodules behind the gills that flicker whenever the water is charged. Science crews use it as a living warning light.

Star Nickel Cod

uncommon

5–15 SP

A sturdy cod scattered with star-pale nickel spots. It favors cold ledges and stares back like it has seen every dive before.

Starlace Ribbonfish

uncommon

5–13 SP

Starlace Ribbonfish drift through blackout water like torn constellations, flashing silver fin-webs whenever sonar brushes their bodies. Their lace fins are delicate but conductive, making them prized by crews tuning sensitive navigation rigs.

Staticfin Sardine

uncommon

4–12 SP

Staticfin Sardines pop and crackle when the net closes, discharging tiny shocks through the haul line. A bucket of them keeps the galley lively and the junior crew cautious.

Steerage Lamp Dace

common

1–2 SP

A warm-bellied dace with brown lower-deck stripes and a weak brass glow. It is common, quick to clean, and a little too good at making the galley quiet.

Steerage Sprat

common

1–3 SP

A small silver sprat that gathers around the cold outlines of drowned lower-deck corridors. Its flanks carry brown bars like old bunk planks, and a few brass-bright spots glint like buttons from uniforms nobody came back for. Common, edible, and faintly melancholy, it is the kind of catch cooks pretend not to name before the pan gets hot.

Stormcrow Lionfish

uncommon

6–15 SP

A striped lionfish with dark spines like storm feathers. Its poison is mild after cooking, but the crew still gives it plenty of respect.

Stormglass Mahi

uncommon

7–16 SP

A tall-finned mahi that looks blown from storm glass and lightning. It tastes bright, clean, and faintly like shouting orders in a gale.

Tarbelly Anchovy

common

1–3 SP

A lean anchovy with a black gloss down its belly, as if it learned to hide in the pitch seams of old pirate hulls. It tastes cleaner than it looks.

Tarspot Flounderling

common

0–2 SP

A young flounder dotted with tar-black spots from feeding near old spill beds. Nobody asks too many questions when the pan is hot.

The Gilded Rind-Guard

uncommon

11–29 SP

Banned from three different ocean realms for reckless arrogance and total refusal to swim like a normal fish. He claims he lost his original body in an underground high-stakes poker game, but nobody has the heart (or the patience) to ask how he ended up stuck in a melon. He floats around at eye level, judges everyone’s outfit, and demands respect he hasn't earned. Stubborn: If you try to push him out of the way, he just floats right back to the exact spot he was in. Lazy: Refuses to move fast unless he's fleeing. If he gets tired, he literally just drops to the floor with a heavy, wet THUD and waits for someone to carry him. Average Length 30 – 40 cm (12 – 16 in) Average Weight 4.5 – 6.8 kg (10 – 15 lbs) Environment: Shallow tropical reefs, coastal brackish estuaries, and warm surface currents. Depth Range: Surface to 10 meters (33 ft).

Thornveil Oarfish

rare

24–58 SP

Thornveil Oarfish trail ribbons of glassy spines that catch sonar like torn curtains. Crews handle them with slow hands because each fin barb stores pressure in hairline channels, making the fish valuable to science and painful to the careless.

Thunderbelly Ling

rare

24–56 SP

A deep ling with a pressure-swollen belly that pops softly when hauled into the air. Crews bleed it slow before baking, because rushing the cut can rattle every pan in the galley.

Tidebutton Snipefish

common

1–3 SP

A narrow little table fish with pearl-like buttons along its flank. It darts through tide wash in short, nervous lines and cooks up cleaner than its needle nose suggests.

Tidechart Ribbonfish

uncommon

5–15 SP

This ribbonfish wears pale lines like a captain's tide chart, though none of them lead anywhere sensible. Navigators still stare too long.

Tideflare Pike

uncommon

7–16 SP

A long pike with orange flare marks racing down its back. It hunts the edge of fast currents and hits bait like a thrown spark.

Tideglass Ribbonfish

uncommon

4–14 SP

A long ribbonfish with hard blue scales that look like tide-polished glass. It coils through current shelves and leaves a shimmer that makes crews doubt their bearings.

Tideglass Sprat

common

1–3 SP

A tiny clear-finned sprat that flashes like broken window glass when the sub lights pass over it. Crews prize it less for meat than for the way its stomach glow hints at nearby plankton blooms.

Tidemark Loach

common

1–3 SP

A bottom loach striped like the stain line on a pier wall. It knows every low place and almost nothing else.

Tinflash Guppy

common

0–2 SP

A nervous guppy that flashes dull tin-silver when startled. It gathers near discarded cans and foil scraps, copying the glitter of trash to dodge bigger mouths.

Tinstripe Anchovy

common

1–3 SP

A bright anchovy marked by a dull stripe like tin under deck lights. It is too small to impress anyone, but a pan full of them can quiet a hungry room.

Tinstripe Dartfish

common

1–2 SP

The Tinstripe Dartfish is a quick little streak of silver that darts through pressure eddies and vanishes under hull shadows. Its narrow body gives it almost no salvage value, though bored deckhands sometimes keep the brightest stripe as a luck token.

Tinwake Anchovy

common

1–3 SP

A narrow anchovy that flashes like cheap tin when it turns. It is rarely valuable, but a school of them can make the sonar screen sparkle.

Treasurefleck Tetra

common

1–3 SP

A tiny tetra dusted with gold flecks bright enough to start arguments. Sadly, the shine is all scale and no spendable coin.

Treasurejaw Trout

uncommon

5–14 SP

A sturdy trout with coin-bright plates set along its jaw. It bites hooks, fingers, and any theory that fish cannot be greedy.

Umbrafin Sardelle

common

1–3 SP

A little sardelle with dark fins that vanish first in low light. The body follows, unless the cook gets lucky with the net.

Unsinkable Lanternfish

rare

30–60 SP

A reinforced lanternfish with pale hull-like sides and a lure that refuses to go dark. Crews follow it only when the alternative is worse.

Velvet Cabin Cuttlefish

uncommon

5–15 SP

A burgundy cuttlefish decorated like a private cabin no one can book anymore. Its ink smells faintly of varnish and saltwater velvet.

Velvet Maw Perch

uncommon

4–12 SP

Velvet Maw Perch are slow, stubborn fish with dark lips soft enough to look harmless until the jaw closes. Their gold-edged fins and dense meat make them a respectable uncommon catch, especially near warm wreck pockets.

Velvet Sonar Ray

uncommon

5–15 SP

A dark ray with pale sonar rings across velvet wings. It moves so quietly that most crews notice the echo before the fish.

Velvetfin Ray

uncommon

6–16 SP

A dark ray with velvet fins and faint starry veins. It glides so quietly that sonar seems to notice it late out of embarrassment.

Venom Sac

common

5–12 SP

Venom Sacs must be cut free gently and stored far from anything the crew plans to keep alive. Their amber toxin can be diluted into bait, medicine, or weapon wash depending on who is holding the vial and how honest they feel about the word diluted.

Ventdust Silverside

common

1–3 SP

A silverside dusted with minerals from warm vents. Shake it gently and it glitters like cheap stage powder.

Ventlace Betta

uncommon

6–14 SP

Ventlace Bettas wear fins like torn lace burned at the edges by warm vent water. They are too pretty for the pan until supplies run low, at which point beauty becomes soup.

Victorian Velvet Goby

common

1–3 SP

A squat goby dressed in burgundy patches and brass dots like upholstery scraps. Historians hate admitting it is edible; cooks hate admitting it is handsome.

Violet Maelstrom Tuna

rare

24–58 SP

A muscular tuna that travels the outer rim of pressure whirlpools, its violet flank stripes curling like storm bands. Landing one means the crew crossed water that wanted to twist the boat sideways.

Voidlace Oarfish

rare

28–58 SP

The Voidlace Oarfish drifts in long black curves, trailing pale fins like torn ceremonial lace. Old crews say it appears where the water has forgotten which way is up.

Watertight Door Loach

common

1–3 SP

A long, slippery loach banded like steel watertight doors, this fish squeezes through gaps that should be sealed forever. Its scales are tougher than they look, and it thrashes hard against the hook. Military crews treat it as a small lesson in pressure, hinges, and what happens when a barrier fails.

Waveline Scup

common

1–3 SP

A broad little scup with faint wave lines in its scales. It is common, edible, and wonderfully unambitious.

Whalefall Butterfish

uncommon

7–16 SP

Whalefall Butterfish graze around old bone fields, turning decay into rich pale flesh. They are gentle, valuable, and a little haunted, which has never stopped a hungry sub crew from cooking them.

Whalefall Minnow

common

1–2 SP

A pale minnow often found near old bones on the seafloor. It feeds quietly where giants ended, which makes the catch feel heavier than it is.

Wharfshadow Dace

common

1–3 SP

A quiet harbor fish that keeps the color of pilings and old rope shadows. It is not impressive, but its steady presence tells a crew they are still close enough to civilization to remember breakfast.

Whisperfin Dab

common

1–3 SP

A small flat dab with fins so soft they barely stir the silt. Crews use its arrival as a sign that the water has gone quiet enough to listen back.

Wicktail Goby

common

1–2 SP

A little goby with a tail filament that glows like a candle wick. The light is weak but stubborn, the kind of signal that makes the deep feel occupied.

Wireless Signal Sardine

common

1–3 SP

This sardine flickers with pale signal-like lines when startled, a weak little pulse that makes radios complain. It gathers around corroded antenna scraps and broken telegraph coils, nibbling minerals from the copper. The crew calls it common; the science bench calls it rude but useful.

Wireless Spark Eel

uncommon

5–15 SP

Copper bands around this eel crackle with little blue sparks. It tangles itself in old signal debris and makes every radio nearby sound haunted.