whats the optimal fishers per dock? i heard the most efficient is 1 because the more you add the less fish the subsequent fisherman produce. but i guess 4 would be better because the price of making multiple docks?

I have fisheries along very lake and creek, and most do not produce much fish, nor did I ever expect them to.

In many instances, like my first attempt at the 900 citizen population achievement, about 400-600 citizens were able to handle all the needs of 800 people or more.

The "extra" citizens could have been assigned as mostly-worthless laborers, but instead, I let them some catch fish, producing more than they would otherwise; they might not be able to catch enough to feed themselves, but at least they produced some of their own food instead of none of it.

After a quick fail, the second unmmodded game I've played was used to get EVERY achievement except Mountain Man, and the ones that prohibit schools, farms-pastures-orchards and trading posts. (That is, every achievement that it could still possibly be unlocked by it.)

In each case, I didn't use fisheries, for the most part, to be effiecient food producers, but rather, to be better than useless productionwise.

BTW... the one thing that I'm still "struggling to figure out" is whether maybe it's better to have other "otherwise useless laborers" rather than unproductive fisherment, only because laborers have a better chance of filling a new job, or replacing the job of someone who moved away with their spouse, or died, and therefore shortening commuter times and production.

I've played around with it both ways, amd fishing seems to work better, but there's reall subtles to doing it just right.

Thanks for this. Been playing Banished for a number of years now (since release...whenever that was) and you answered a lot of questions about docks I have never really sat down to find out. Although the general idea of untilizing the fishing space best was known, the images you created were extremely helpful! Well done. Thank you again.

Colonial Charter now also has dock fisheries. You can just extend a wooden walkway and don't need to do any terraforming

Thank you so much, I couldn't figure out why my town was starving, even though I kept building more fishing docks... turns out that they were placed badly and for every worker I assigned, I was actually increasing the food deficit. GAH!

Thank you

This is a good guide. Thanks :D

Wow! Thanks for all doing the work that went into making this. A really great guide that taught me a lot!

@SeriouslyDave i cant make it far enough to get any worth while information for you but it is the medium start first 2 or three years in the best spot i can find in a good area on a lake/in a lake and cant get it over 600-800 fish a year