Fish

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Fish are a number collectible items in the Animal Crossing series. Players can catch them with a fishing rod. They can be donated to the museum to fill up the aquarium, sold to Tom Nook/Reese, or placed in the player's home inside a Fish Tank, like a piece of furniture. However, only small fish tanks will be able to placed on top of furniture (e.g. A Table). Larger fish tanks must be put onto the floor. A large amount of fish will only emerge during the summer, a few unique species will emerge in autumn and spring, and there are almost none during the winter. Some villagers in City Folk will ask the player to try and catch a certain fish, and, upon doing so, they will give an item to the player, which could be anything from an article of clothing to a piece of furniture.

For further information, see Fishing.

Fish Sizes

In the series there are six different sizes of fish. Knowing the size of fish is a good way to mentally eliminate "common" fish without having to catch them first. Fish come in several size types, including tiny, small, medium, large, very large, and huge. Sharks and sunfish are unlike other fish in that they show a fin in their shadow.

In New Leaf, there are now various catch sizes of each fish that can be kept track of and recorded into an encyclopedia. Every time the player catches a fish that is bigger than the original record, it will be overwritten. However the shadow size for each type remains the same, no matter how big or small the resulting catch size is.

List of Fish Between Games

Main: Fish (Animal Forest)

In Animal Forest, there are 32 species of fish obtainable. The Coelacanth is the only fish that can be caught in the ocean.

Main: Fish (Animal Crossing)

In Animal Crossing, there are 40 species of fish obtainable.The Herabuna from Animal Forest and Animal Forest+ has been replaced with the Brook Trout. Sea Bass, Red Snapper, Barred Knifejaw, Jellyfish, Arapaima, Crawfish, Frog and Killifish were added.

Complete Fish — *Animal Crossing* Fish list.

Main: Fish (Animal Forest e+)

In the Japanese-only game, Animal Forest e+, an extra 8 species occur, making 48 species of fish obtainable. The new species include the Horse Mackerel, Puffer Fish, Dab, Olive Flounder, Squid, Octopus, Seahorse, and Swordfish.

ALL the fish animal forest e plus — *Animal Forest e+* fish list.

Main: Fish (Wild World)

In Wild World, a total of 56 fish are obtainable. Dropped fish include Giant Catfish, Brook Trout, Herabuna, Small Bass, Large Bass and Large Char. New fish include Yellow Perch, King Salmon, Dorado, Gar, Zebra Turkeyfish, Football Fish, Tuna, Sunfish, Hammerhead Shark and Shark. No Animal Forest e+ endemics were dropped. In Wild World, 35 fish are freshwater and 21 are saltwater.

Main: Fish (City Folk)

In City Folk, a total of 64 fish are obtainable. No fish were dropped. New fish include Butterflyfish, Lobster, Moray Eel, Napoleonfish, Neon Tetra, Pike, Ray and Surgeonfish. The placement of fish in this game is evened out. In Animal Crossing: City Folk, 37 fish are freshwater and 27 are saltwater.

Main: Fish (New Leaf)

In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, a total of 72 fish are obtainable. Dropped fish include the Jellyfish. New species include the Whale Shark, Giant Trevally, Oarfish, Nibble Fish, Saddled Bichir, Blowfish, Tadpole, Soft Shelled Turtle, Ribbon Eel, Chinese Mitten Crab and Sawshark. In New Leaf, 41 fish are freshwater and 31 are saltwater.

Complete list of fish throughout the AC series

Below is a list of fish throughout the series (note that some fish are not present in all Animal Crossing games).

Name	Price in Bells	Location	Time	Months	Peak Time	Peak Months
Angelfish	3,000	River	4pm-9am	May-Oct
Arapaima	10,000	River	4pm-9am	Jul-Sep
Arowana	10,000	River	4pm-9am	Jun-1st half Sep
Barbel Steed	200	River	All Day	All Year	9pm-4am	Oct-Apr
Barred Knifejaw	5,000	Ocean	All Day	Mar-Nov
Bitterling	1300	River	All Day	Nov-Feb
Black Bass	300	River	All Day	All Year	4am-9pm	May-Nov
Blowfish (NL)	125	Ocean	All Day	Nov-Feb
Blue Marlin (AFe++)	10,000	Ocean	All Day	Jul-Sep
Bluegill	120	River	9am-4pm	All Year		May-Nov
Butterflyfish (CF+)	1,000	Ocean	All Day	Apr-Sept
Carp	300	River	All Day	All Year	4pm-9am	Apr-May, Oct-Nov
Catfish	800	River pool	4pm-9am	May-Oct	9pm-4am	Jun-Sep
Char	3,800	Waterfall	4am-9am, 4pm-9pm	Mar-Jun, Sep-Nov
Cherry Salmon	1,000	River	4am-9am, 4pm-9pm	Mar-Jun, Sep-Nov		Mar-Apr, Sept-Oct
Clownfish (WW+)	400	Ocean	All Day	Apr-Sept	9am-4pm	Mar-Aug
Coelacanth	15,000	Ocean (raining or snowing)	4pm-9am	All Year
Crawfish	250	Holding pond	All Day	Apr-1st half Sept
Crucian Carp	120	River	All Day	All Year		Mar-May, Sept-Nov
Dab (AFe++)	300	Ocean	All Day	Oct-Apr
Dace	200	River	4pm-9am	All Year	4pm-9am	Dec-Feb
Dorado (WW+)	15,000	River	4am-9pm	Jun-Sept
Eel	2,000	River	4pm-9am	Jun-1st half Sept	9pm-4am	Jul-Aug
Football Fish (WW+)	2,500	Ocean	4pm-9am	Nov-Mar
Freshwater Goby	300	River	4pm-9am	All Year
Frog	120	Holding Pond	All Day	May-Aug
Gar (WW+)	6,000	River pool	4pm-9am	Jun-Sep
Giant Snakehead	5,500	River pool	9am-4pm	Jun-Aug
Giant Trevally (NL)	4,500	Island Ocean	All day	All Year
Goldfish	1,300	River	All Day	All Year
Guppy	1,300	River	9am-4pm	Apr-Nov		May-Nov
Hammerhead Shark (WW)	8,000	Ocean	4pm-9am	Jun-Sep
Herabuna (AF&DM+)	300	River Pool	All Day	All Year
Horse Mackerel (AFe++)	150	Ocean	All Day	All Year
Jellyfish	100	Ocean	All Day	2nd half Aug
Killifish	300	Holding Pond	All Day	Apr-Aug
King Salmon (WW+)	1,800	River	All Day	Sept
Koi	4,000	River	4pm-9am	All Year
Loach	300	River	All Day	Mar-May	4am-9pm	Apr-Jun, Oct-Dec
Lobster (CF)	2,500	Ocean	All Day	Nov-Feb
Mitten Crab (NL)	2,000	River	4pm-9am	Sept 15th-Nov
Moray Eel (CF+)	2,000	Ocean	All Day	Aug-Oct
Napoleonfish (CF+)	10,000	Ocean	All Day	July-Aug
Nibble Fish (NL)	1,200	River	9am-4pm	May-Sept
Neon Tetra (CF+)	500	River	9am-4pm	Apr-Nov
Oarfish (NL)	9,000	Ocean	All day	Dec-May
Ocean Sunfish (WW+)	4,000	Ocean	4am-9pm	Jun-Sept	5pm-9pm
Octopus (AFe++)	500	Ocean	All Day	Mar-Jul, 2nd half Sept-Jan	4am-9pm	Jul-Aug
Olive Flounder (AFe++)	800	Ocean	All Day	All Year	All Day	Dec-Feb
Pale Chub	200	River	9am-4pm	All Year	9am-4pm	Apr-Jun,Sep-Nov
Pike (CF+)	1,800	River	4am-9pm	Sept - Dec
Piranha	2,500	River	9am-4pm, 9pm-4am	Jun-1st half Sep
Popeyed Goldfish	1,300	River	9am-4pm	All Year
Pond Smelt	300	River pool	All Day	Dec-Feb
Puffer Fish (AFe++)	240	Ocean	All Day	Jul-Sep	All Day	August
Rainbow Trout	800	River	4am-9am, 4pm-9pm	Mar-Jun,Sep-Nov	4am-9am, 4pm-9pm	Mar, Apr, Sep, Oct
Ray (CF+)	3,000	Ocean	All Day	Aug-Dec
Red Snapper	3,000	Ocean	All Day	All Year	All Day	Apr-Jul
Ribbon Eel (NL)	600	Island Ocean	All Day	All Year
Saddled Bichir (NL)	4,000	River	9pm-4am	June-September
Salmon	700	River	All Day	Sept
Saw Shark (NL)	12,000	Ocean	4pm-9am	June-Sept
Sea Bass	160	Ocean	All Day	All Year	Any Time	Any Month
Sea Butterfly (WW+)	1,000	Ocean	All Day	Dec-Feb
Seahorse (AFe++)	1,100	Ocean	All Day	Apr-Nov	9am-4pm	May-Sept
Shark (WW+)	15,000	Ocean	4pm-9am	Jun-Sep
Softshell Turtle (NL)	3,750	River	4pm-9am	Aug-Sep
Squid (AFe++)	400	Ocean	All Day	Dec-1st half Aug	9pm-4am	Feb-Jun
Stringfish	15,000	River	4pm-9am	Dec-Feb	4pm-8am	Dec-Feb
Surgeonfish (CF+)	1,000	Ocean	All Day	Apr-Sept
Sweetfish	900	River	All Day	Jul-1st half Sep	4am-9pm	Jul-Aug
Tadpole (NL)	100	Pond	All Day	Mar-July
Tuna (WW+)	7,000	Ocean	All Day	Nov-Mar
Whale Shark (NL)	13,000	Island Ocean	All Day	All Year
Yellow Perch (WW+)	240	River	All Day	Oct-March	4am-9pm	Nov-Feb
Zebra Turkeyfish (WW+)	400	Ocean	All Day	Apr-Nov	9am-4pm	May-Sept