I'm not much of a forum person but I'm wondering if someone else saw this as well:

I recently took up fishing and fished up some low level Grade I fish (to turn into shards). The recipe cap to turn them into shards were only Alchemy level 1. My Alchemy is @36. Needless to say, I didn't get any experience turning these fish into shards.

But then, I see in my logs that my Dated Canvas Shortgloves + 1 were ready to turn into materia.

I thought that gaining experience points were the only way to be able to convert materia. Has anyone else seen this before? Maybe there's more to skilling up for materia.