Sweetfish
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Name: Plecoglossus altivelis (sweetfish) Family: Plecoglossidae (sweetfishes) | ||||||||
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Names in other languages
アユ
은어 Ayu Ayu
香鱼
Ayu Ayu Ayu
香魚 Ayu Ayu Айю |
The sweetfish is a fish in the Animal Crossing series introduced in Doubutsu no Mori. It appears as a medium shadow that can be found in rivers all day long from mid summer to early fall in all games except Animal Crossing: Wild World, in which it is instead found from July until August.
Catch details[edit]
In Animal Crossing[edit]
In Wild World[edit]
In City Folk[edit]
In New Leaf[edit]
In Pocket Camp[edit]
In New Horizons[edit]
Time of year | North: Jul – Sep South: Jan – Mar |
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Time of day | All day |
Location | River |
Shadow size | Medium |
Rarity | Common |
Spawn requirement | Appears from the start of the game |
Selling prices | Nook's Cranny: 900 Bells C.J.: 1,350 Bells |
Furniture size |
Donating to the museum[edit]
In Animal Crossing[edit]
In Wild World[edit]
The sweetfish can be found swimming near the surface in the pond aquarium in the first fish room.
In City Folk[edit]
The sweetfish can be found in the middle-right tank in the aquarium.
In New Leaf[edit]
In New Horizons[edit]
When donating to Blathers or selecting "Tell me about this!" in New Horizons, he will provide the following information about the fish:
Once donated to the museum, the sweetfish can be found in the second tier of the waterfall fish-tank with the stringfish and freshwater goby.
Fishing Tourney[edit]
During a Fishing Tourney, when given a sweetfish, Chip will say the following dialogue.
In City Folk[edit]
In New Leaf[edit]
Gallery[edit]
Real-world information[edit]
The sweetfish, or ayu, is an amphidromous fish, the only species in the genus Plecoglossus and in family Plecoglossidae. It is a relative of the smelts and is placed in the order Osmeriformes. Native to the Palearctic ecozone, it is found in rivers, lakes, and coastal waters of western Hokkaidō in Japan southward to the Korean Peninsula, China, and Taiwan. The name "sweetfish" is from the sweetness of its flesh. Regarding its typical one-year life span, it is also known as nen-gyo ("year-fish"). It is Gunma prefecture's prefectural fish.
Names in other languages[edit]
アユ ayu |
Sweetfish | |
은어 euneo |
Sweetfish, lit. "silver fish" | |
香鱼 xiāngyú |
Sweetfish | |
香魚 hoeng1 jyu4-2 |
Sweetfish | |
Айю Ay'yu |
From Japanese name | |
Ayu | From Japanese name | |
Ayu | From Japanese name | |
Ayu | From Japanese name | |
Ayu | From Japanese name | |
Ayu | From Japanese name |
Notes[edit]
- ↑ All bugs and fish in the first-generation games can appear at a lower spawn rate up to five days before the start of their first month of availability.
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