Ocean Fishing 'fish' caught have no market value, how does this work?

[chuckboyer2016]

I've enjoyed the experience and yellow gatherer's scrips gained from the new 'Ocean Fishing' in the game. It's a lot of fun too. I'm glad they added this feature for us fishers.

However, I find in searching Marketboard for each new fish that their values for sale are 1g or such.

I'm a new player for sure, 3 months now. How does the Marketboard on new items work out? I don't see how the fish caught in Ocean Fishing can have any value other than the new fish canvas feature of mounting them in a picture and handing on your house walls.

I wish the developers would have made these fish linked to some purpose so that they had monetary gil value too, for sure. Quest gatherings, Levequests, Grand Company, Collections, crafting recipes.... anything. But there's nothing. So I don't see how there will be any rise in gil value over time? Or do I have this all wrong and somehow it works out that the prices will rise for some reason?

Hmmm, I wonder. And asking. Thank you.

[Kidria]

The ocean fish have no market value whatsoever. You pretty much use them for canvas printing, or you can desynth them for a chance to get some bait back. But as of now, they have no monetary value.

[Jojoya]

I've enjoyed the experience and yellow gatherer's scrips gained from the new 'Ocean Fishing' in the game. It's a lot of fun too. I'm glad they added this feature for us fishers.

However, I find in searching Marketboard for each new fish that their values for sale are 1g or such.

I'm a new player for sure, 3 months now. How does the Marketboard on new items work out? I don't see how the fish caught in Ocean Fishing can have any value other than the new fish canvas feature of mounting them in a picture and handing on your house walls.

I wish the developers would have made these fish linked to some purpose so that they had monetary gil value too, for sure. Quest gatherings, Levequests, Grand Company, Collections, crafting recipes.... anything. But there's nothing. So I don't see how there will be any rise in gil value over time? Or do I have this all wrong and somehow it works out that the prices will rise for some reason?

Hmmm, I wonder. And asking. Thank you.

Ocean fishing wasn't created to be a way to make gil. It's intended to be a fun time filler that allows you to level fishing extremely fast and get a few achievements. Even if it had been, the massive number of players participating would have crashed any gil making opportunities.

If you want to be making gil from fishing, you need to go into the open world zones and catch the fish that are in demand for ALC/CUL or reductible for Aethersands. Some of the level 50 big fish can bring in a lot of gil from the very rare glamour items and crafting materials obtained through their desynthesis. Fish needed for Grand Company and leve turn-ins used to be valuable on the MB as well but Ocean Fishing might have crashed that market since it's made leveling so very quick and easy.

[Shadygrove]

NPC sell them or desynth them for crystals, bait, and sand.

[chuckboyer2016]

thanks all.