Selling cod at the quay in Lofoten Catch: buyers and prices

At the fish landing you tie up, the buyer weighs and checks every box, and then two buyers make you an offer. The Fresh-fish buyer pays the most per kilogram but only takes a small order of fresh cod. The Fish factory buys the whole hold and pays 8 kr extra per kilogram when you bring at least 12 kg. Fresh cod and big cod are worth more to both.

Tying up and unloading

Sail to the cream house on the small map with cod in your hold. When the big button says Tie up and unload, press it (F, controller A). The boat moves into its berth by itself and the camera moves in to the quay.

Then the unloading starts:

1. The crew passes a box to the buyer: Box 1/3 · Unloading.
2. The box goes on the quay scale: Weight 8 kg · The buyer is checking.
3. The buyer looks at the cod. A big fresh cod goes on the raised tray, standard cod back into a box, and older cod into the deep blue tub.

Each box holds up to 8 kg and takes 2 seconds. A full 48 kg hold is usually 6 boxes, about 12 seconds. When the last box is checked, the screen says how many kilograms you have to sell, and the offers appear. The fish clock stops while you are tied up, so your cod don't get older at the quay.

The three grades of cod

The buyer sorts your catch into three grades. Open the Catch receipt (R, D-pad right, or tap it) to see how many kilograms of each you have.

The 3 minutes count only while you sail: not while you are paused and not while you are tied up. With Insulated fish boxes from the boat workshop, cod stay fresh for 6 minutes instead. The game does not show a timer, so the receipt is the place to check.

The far fishing ground gives big cod much more often than the near one. See Longline fishing.

The two buyers

Each offer button shows the total in kroner, the kilograms and the price per kilogram, for example 352 kr and 8 kg · 44 kr/kg. Press the one you want (keyboard 1 or 2; controller A or X). Coins fly into your Wallet and the quay says Sold: 8 kg · +352 kr.

Fresh-fish buyer

• Buys only cod that is still fresh: Large & fresh and Standard.
• Has a small order: at most 8 kg at a time. The button then says Order: 8 kg when you have more than that.
• Picks your best cod first: big cod, then the freshest.
• After you sell to it, its order fills up again by 1 kg for every minute you sail, back up to 8 kg.

Fish factory

• Buys everything in your hold, all three grades.
• Pays 8 kr extra per kilogram when you sell at least 12 kg.
• Pays a little less after you sell it a lot of cod, because it already has plenty. Its price climbs back while you sail, and a full climb takes 8 minutes.

How much do the buyers pay?

The game works out a price for every kilogram. These numbers are game rules, not real fish prices, and the game doesn't show the full rule.

How the prices change:

• Freshness. The fresh-fish buyer takes up to 7 kr/kg off as the cod gets older. The factory takes up to 10 kr/kg off over 4 minutes (8 minutes with insulated boxes).
• Big cod. +6 kr/kg at the fresh-fish buyer, +3 kr/kg at the factory.
• Less than 12 kg. The factory pays 8 kr/kg less.
• A busy factory. Each kilogram you sell lowers the factory's price a little. After a full 48 kg sale it pays up to about 10 kr/kg less, until it recovers.

Which buyer should you pick?

The offers change after every sale, because your hold changes. A good rule:

• Less than 20 kg aboard: sell it all to the Fish factory. If you sell 8 kg to the fresh-fish buyer first, less than 12 kg is left and you lose the factory's extra 8 kr/kg.
• 20 kg or more aboard: sell to the Fresh-fish buyer first. It takes its 8 kg of your best cod at its top price. Then sell the rest to the factory, which still gets at least 12 kg.
• Only old cod aboard: the fresh-fish buyer has no offer. Sell to the factory.

Worked example

You bring 48 kg of big cod from the far ground, about one minute old.

• Fresh-fish buyer first: 8 kg at about 50 kr/kg, about 400 kr. Then the factory: 40 kg at about 45 kr/kg, about 1,800 kr. Together about 2,200 kr.
• Everything to the factory: 48 kg at about 45 kr/kg, about 2,160 kr.

With a small hold of 16 kg of normal cod, also about one minute old, it is the other way round. Everything to the factory gives about 670 kr. Fresh first gives only about 620 kr, because the last 8 kg lose the factory's 12 kg extra.

Sailing off

When you are done, choose Sail off (Q, controller B). You don't have to sell everything: you can sail off with unsold cod and sell it next time. Just remember it keeps getting older while you sail.

Before you go, look for Buy extra bait · 40 kr and the Boat workshop next to the quay.

See also

• The boat workshop: spend your kroner.
• Tips for skippers: plans that earn the most.
• Longline fishing
• Glossary
• Play Lofoten Catch

• About Lofoten Catch
• All game guides