A Fish Hatchery is a fish breeding enclosure introduced in The Elder Scrolls V: Hearthfire. It can be used to breed most of the fish species found in Skyrim, 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 Skyrim fish 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.
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.
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
Notes
- Slaughterfish can not be directly harvested like the other fish. Attempting to swim up to one will not give you the prompt to harvest.
- Despite claims, Slaughterfish bred together with other fish will not eat the other fish, or slow down their spawn rate. Unlike wild Slaughterfish, those bred in the hatchery will not attack the Dragonborn when nearby. They will also produce Slaughterfish Egg(s)?.
Appearances
- The Elder Scrolls V: Hearthfire Template:1st