# I thought deep sea fish was faster food income than shore fish?

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**Created:** [September 29, 2026, 11:22am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/i-thought-deep-sea-fish-was-faster-food-income-than-shore-fish/290079 "2026-09-29T11:22:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hjoerleif](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/hjoerleif/32/119250_2.png) [@Hjoerleif](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/Hjoerleif)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 11:22am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/i-thought-deep-sea-fish-was-faster-food-income-than-shore-fish/290079/1 "2026-09-29T11:22:08Z")

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The stats show same gather rate for both shore fish and deep sea fish (both regarding fishing ship and villager). Did they change this in an update I missed? Or is this unintended?

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**Author:** ![Darkness01101](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/darkness01101/32/214966_2.png) [@Darkness01101](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/Darkness01101)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 6:25pm UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/i-thought-deep-sea-fish-was-faster-food-income-than-shore-fish/290079/2 "2026-09-29T18:25:26Z")

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I’ve always heard deep sea fish was faster, too. With deep see being a longer journey, the reward should probably be faster rate

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**Author:** ![Thire7](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/thire7/32/171912_2.png) [@Thire7](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/Thire7)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2026, 9:00pm UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/i-thought-deep-sea-fish-was-faster-food-income-than-shore-fish/290079/3 "2026-10-02T21:00:55Z")

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Although the unit work rate is the same, fishing ships have separate tasks for the different fish types: Deep Sea Fish and Ocean Fish have a work rate multiplier of 1.75; for Fish Traps it’s 1.45; and shore fish have the lowest at a flat 1.0.

For Fishermen they just have the one value, 1.0.