Submariner — Sea Life

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.

Sabbath Butterflyfish

uncommon

5–14 SP

Black velvet fins open into a ring of tiny silver moons.

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.

Scarecrow Sculpin

common

0–3 SP

Strawlike spines snag drifting grass and make a convincing disguise.

Scarefin Shad

common

1–3 SP

A patched shad with straw-gold fin rays and pumpkin cheeks. It swims badly but bravely, which may be why it ends up in nets so often.

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.

Screamfin Sailfish

rare

26–58 SP

A pale face blooms across its sail whenever it accelerates through moonlit water.

Screamscale Sprat

common

0–2 SP

A pale face-shaped scale pattern makes the little fish look permanently startled.

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.

Shadow Lantern Pike

uncommon

5–15 SP

A long pike with dim lantern marks buried in its flanks. It cruises along wreck corridors and reveals just enough light to make following it feel like a mistake worth making.

Shadowcloak Swordfish

uncommon

6–16 SP

A ragged dorsal cloak folds around it until only one amber eye remains visible.

Shadowpumpkin Shad

common

1–3 SP

Its round black body reveals an orange pumpkin pattern only when it turns.

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.

Shrapnel Spine Mackerel

uncommon

5–15 SP

Bright chrome scales hide a row of broken blade-like spines. Deckhands handle it with gloves after the first one turned a bait bucket into a very small battlefield.

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.

Siltglimmer Minnow

common

1–3 SP

A pocket-sized shimmerfish that rolls through harbor silt like a loose spark from the engine room. Crews prize it as a mild pan fish, though its glittering scales are better at revealing dirty currents than filling a hungry deckhand.

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.

Silvercoil Eel

uncommon

5–16 SP

A ribboning eel with silver loops that pulse like charged wire when handled. Its nerves store faint bioelectric readings, useful to researchers and unpleasant to anyone holding it barehanded.

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.

Singing Pressure Koi

rare

20–52 SP

A deep koi whose swim bladder hums at different notes as pressure changes around it. Engineers listen to the tone through the tank glass; when the song goes sharp, it means the sea outside is squeezing harder than the gauges admit.

Skeletonkey Sardine

common

0–2 SP

Its bone-white flank pattern resembles a key for a lock no diver has found.

Skeletonleaf Scad

common

1–3 SP

Leaf-shaped fins carry pale veins like a skeletal autumn leaf.

Skeletonstripe Sardine

common

1–3 SP

Bone-white stripes flash along its sides when the school turns.

Skullcap Sculpin

common

0–3 SP

A bone-white crown plate shields its broad little head.

Skullcap Smelt

common

0–2 SP

A bone-white marking covers its head and makes every school resemble a drifting cemetery.

Skullspot Molly

common

1–3 SP

A black molly with a bone-white skull blotch on its flank and bright orange fins. It looks grim in the net, then turns surprisingly mild in the galley.

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.

Sonar-Speck Herring

common

1–3 SP

A slim herring dotted with pale blue specks that brighten under active sonar. Navigators call them living test pings; cooks call them better with salt.

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.

Specterstripe Sole

common

0–2 SP

A wandering pale stripe crosses its flat body as though alive.

Spectral Organfish

uncommon

5–14 SP

Pipe-like fin rays play a hollow chord as this fish glides.

Spectral Shiner

common

1–3 SP

A glassy shiner that glows pale blue when startled. The shimmer is lovely, but the real trick is how its body reveals stress fractures in nearby glass and gauge lenses.

Spectral Spine Eel

uncommon

6–15 SP

A luminous phantom skeleton follows half a body length behind it.

Spellbook Salmon

common

1–3 SP

Its plated scales resemble tiny spellbook covers filled with unreadable marks.

Spellstripe Smelt

common

1–3 SP

A single glowing rune stripe runs from its nose to its forked tail.

Spiderfin Sprat

common

1–3 SP

Eight thin fin rays scuttle across the water whenever this nervous sprat breaks the surface.

Spiderweb Sprat

common

0–3 SP

A web of silver lines across its scales confuses pursuing predators.

Spooktail Snapper Fry

common

1–3 SP

Its translucent forked tail flickers in and out of view.

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.

Steamvent Molly

common

1–3 SP

A hardy molly dusted with warm mineral freckles from vent water. Its fins flutter faster when heat blooms nearby.

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.

Thronefin Eclipse Leviathan

legendary

115–240 SP

A legendary leviathan crowned by fins like a black eclipse. It is less caught than briefly persuaded to share the same ocean as the crew.

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.

Tincture Veilfin

uncommon

5–15 SP

A delicate veilfin with amber sacs full of strange natural tincture. The cook will ask if it is edible, the science officer will say probably, and everyone will pretend that answered the question.

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.