Fish Hatchery

A Fish Hatchery is a fish breeding enclosure introduced in. It can be used to breed most of the fish species found in, which can be collected to use as ingredients to brew potions at an Alchemy Lab.

It can only be crafted at the homestead of Windstad Manor with 3 Sawn Logs, 3 Quarried Stones and 4 Nails.

Interaction
After the Fish Hatchery is constructed, fish can be bred by activating the hatchery, located at the end of the small timber platform on the west side of the Winstad Manor. Any fish native to Skyrim can be added to the hatchery, as well as clam. The player can add more than one species of fish at a time. If you try and add more than one of the same species of fish, the fish will appear to leave your inventory and you will be prompted with a message saying You only need to add one of each item to the hatchery. Any surplus fish that the player added to the hatchery will be returned to the player's inventory after you exit.

Schools of 2 to 3 fish will begin to spawn in the hatchery after an unspecified amount of in-game time. In addition to the fish themselves, raising Abecean Longfin, Cyrodilic Spadetail, Histcarp, River Betty, or Silverside Perch in the hatchery will also attract Blue and Orange Dartwings, which can also be harvested.

Placing a single slaughterfish egg in the hatchery will produce 2 live slaughterfish (which may be harvested for their scales), as well as 2-3 clutches of slaughterfish eggs.

All fish, insects, clams, and eggs respawn ever 1 to 3 days of in-game time.

Harvesting
After an unknown amount of in-game time, the fish hatchery will spawn fish of the species added earlier. You can have multiple species of fish spawned at the same time, with no limit. In order to harvest the fish, the player must actually enter the water and manually harvest the fish, just like harvesting wild fish throughout Skyrim.

To harvest slaughterfish scales, however, the player must first shoot a slaughterfish with a bow; swimming up to a slaughterfish in the hatchery does not prompt the player to harvest. Salmon may be harvested in the traditional manner (by swimming up to them), but if harvested by shooting them with a bow, they yield both salmon meat and salmon roe.

Fish
The following fish can be bred in the fish hatchery:
 * Abecean Longfin
 * Cyrodilic Spadetail
 * Clam Meat
 * Histcarp
 * River Betty
 * Salmon using Salmon Roe
 * Silverside Perch
 * Slaughterfish using Slaughterfish Egg