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[acetech09]

I'm 5 years into this fotress, and just got around to building an aboveground castle that has a river running through part of it... I thought I'd put some of my peasants to work and assigned a few of them to fishing. After assigning them, I soon get the message 'There's nothing to catch in the southern swamps' but as I look around, there's at least 20 fish in the murky pools scattered around the map, and a flock of salmon in the river inside my castle...

I try to set a fishing zone, but it shows (0) when I try to designate one of the ponds... even though there are tons of fish inside the southern swamps...

[Sphalerite]

It's sort of bugged.  When a dwarf goes to fish, he's not catching the vermin fish you see swimming around the map.  Instead, he's pulling fish from an invisible offscreen population.  When that population count reaches zero, you will catch no more fish.  This can happen even though there are vermin fish type creatures actually on the map.  It's stupid and annoying, but that's the way it works.

[acetech09]

Ah... so he tries to catch the vermin-vermin fish... not the vermin fish like molly.

Is there any way to catch those fish that I see in the rivers?

[Sphalerite]

Is there any way to catch those fish that I see in the rivers?

None that will leave you anything edible.  You might be able to catch them with the 'capture live fish' job, but that just gets you a live fish in an animal trap.  You can't butcher that, just stick it on display in an aquarium.  Your cats might sometimes kill one of the vermin fish, resulting in a vermin corpse.  You might also be able to set up some way to drain the water out where the fish are and thereby air-drown them, again resulting in a useless vermin corpse.

[acetech09]

Heh - aquarium will be my next SDT after I finish getting some cotton candy and magma smelters.