Ocean fishing is horribly designed

[BluexBird]

There are no rewards or benefits from doing anything else.
The fish are essentially worthless.
There are no rewards for the super-rare fish.

The sad reality is that Square-Enix are too paranoid about inflation to EVER make fish be worth anything. The only fish that actually have any value are the ones you can trade in for levequests, that players leveling their FSH will buy for convenience and faster leveling. Which is ridiculous, TBH.

They need to come up with a new system that makes fishing valuable and worthwhile. At least gathering and mining have ties with many of the crafting jobs. Fishing though? It's a joke. Something to do when you're bored with the game, after you've capped your weekly tomes and done every raid tier, that'll ultimately give you nothing in return. Sad.

I kinda think we should get like a fish market where you could sell fish to npcs for more gil than the basic sale value with maybe different fish in demand for every day or ability to trade fish for food/other items.

Excuse me buddy but they're called "collectibles", and you can exchange them for yellow/white scrips. Oh what's that? You wanted to make ACTUAL GIL with them? HAHA good luck convincing Square-Enix and their paranoid anti-inflation brigade. They're more worried about making sure players don't get more gil from the game/NPCs, than tackling the real issue with inflation - players having too much money but nothing to spend it on.