In Odyssey, you can make a fishing zone on any shallow water. Shallow water can freeze over and become ice if it's sufficiently cold. This mod lets your pawns cut through this type of ice so that you can access the underlying fishing zones. It should work in any biome, but sea ice is where you'd tend to find these frozen-over bodies of water most often.

To be clear, this is just on sea ice tiles and not any ice, right?

Latest update (1.6.4566) moved fishing into its own work category. I've just pushed an update to move ice fishing into this work category as well.

I'm pretty the bug was a mod conflict but I didn't encounter it again in gameplay.

Limey - I've been unable to replicate the issue with pawns incapable of mining work. If you have any more information I can try to chase it down.

I have a colonist that can cut ice despite being incapable of mining labor, but an error printed when he did.

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Just pushed an update to ensure that pawns will attempt at least one fishing job after making a fishing hole. Should eliminate situations where pawns were spending more time making fishing holes than actually fishing.

Great addon this mod

Correct, this mod just allows your pawns to cut through ice to reach existing fishing zones - it doesn't change the rules for where you can create those fishing zones.

I assume that we still need to drill these fishing holes in shallow frozen water, then.
Very useful indeed, for the next time I decide to play Sea Ice for real (until the mods start throwing errors).

@Rubus How many bread have you eaten in your life?

But.. But how many hours of eating ice do you have?

I have seen a lot of people asking how they can use dev-mode to add fish to bodies of water, but I have not found an answer. If anyone knows, it is probably the person who made a mod about adding fish to another biome.

Do you know how to add fish to a depleted lake, or how to make a body of water that has no fish in it, to become a fishable area?

Wonderful, no longer need to melt the ice with indoor temperature.