PSA: Here's All the Fish Leaving Animal Crossing: New Horizons Soon

With Animal Crossing: New Horizons quickly becoming most people’s preferred instance of reality, scores of new island dwellers are doing their absolute best to touch every peace of blessed content in this much-needed escape from what I had, until recently, only half-seriously referred to as a spiraling hell dimension. And whether this is your first Animal Crossing adventure or your eighth, there’s plenty to learn and even more to remember. For instance, did you know that the available fish change with the passing seasons? I’ve been on the Animal Crossing train since the GameCube and today was the first I’d heard about it.

As it turns out, the first seasonal fish migration happens at the end of this month. Thankfully, the good folk over at AC Pocket News and the New Horizons Fandom Wiki have put together this ultra-helpful infographic for both Northern and Southern hemisphere islanders, which details all the fish that are leaving, as well as where they can be caught, and when. If you’re avoiding spoilers for any amount of Animal Crossing: New Horizon content, the rest of this post is not for you!

As March comes to a close, check your Critterpedia to make sure you have found all the fish leaving this month in #AnimalCrossing: New Horizons. https://t.co/KANFjPWtvo pic.twitter.com/Wc3nXrUxiD

— ACPocketNews (@ACPocketNews) March 24, 2020

We’ve gone ahead and transcribed the infographic above into a couple of Ctrl+F-able tables, which you’ll find below, should that be something you’re interested in. Beyond capitalizing on the sheer bell value of some of these rare fish, it’s also important to remember that Blathers is an invaluable treasure, and that we must all work tirelessly to make sure his dream of a truly incredible museum is brought to fruition. As such, it would behoove us to donate one specimen of each fish listed below before they swim off to wherever it is that fish go when they’re not around. The moon?

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Northern Hemisphere Fish (Leaving March, 2020)

Fish	Bell Value	Location	Shadow Size	Availability
Bitterling	900 Bells	Rivers	Tiny	Anytime
Yellow Perch	300 Bells	Rivers	Small	Anytime
Saddled Bichir	4,000 Bells	Rivers	Medium	9 p.m. to 4 a.m.
Stringfish	15,000 Bells	Clifftop Rivers	Large	4 p.m. to 9 a.m.
Cherry Salmon	1,000 Bells	Clifftop Rivers	Small	9 p.m. to 4 a.m.
Sturgeon	10,000 Bells	River Mouths	Large	Anytime
Sea Butterfly	1,000 Bells	Ocean	Tiny	Anytime
Football Fish	2,500 Bells	Ocean	Medium	4 p.m. to 9 a.m.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Southern Hemisphere Fish (Leaving March, 2020)

Fish	Bell Value	Location	Shadow Size	Availability
Crawfish	200 Bells	Pond	Small	Anytime
Nibble Fish	1,500 Bells	Rivers	Tiny	9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Piranha	2,500 Bells	Rivers	Tiny	9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sweetfish	900 Bells	Rivers	Small	Anytime
Arowana	10,000 Bells	Rivers	Medium	4 p.m. to 9 a.m.
Dorado	15,000 Bells	Rivers	Medium	4 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Arapaima	10,000 Bells	Rivers	Large	4 p.m. to 9 a.m.
Soft-shelled Turtle	3,750 Bells	Rivers	Medium	9 p.m. to 4 a.m.
Salmon	700 Bells	River Mouths	Medium	Anytime
King Salmon	1,800 Bells	River Mouths	Large	Anytime
Clownfish	650 Bells	Ocean	Tiny	Anytime
Butterfly Fish	1,000 Bells	Ocean	Tiny	Anytime
Surgeonfish	1,000 Bells	Ocean	Tiny	Anytime
Puffer Fish	250 Bells	Ocean	Small	Anytime
Ocean Sunfish	4,000 Bells	Ocean	Fin	4 p.m. to 9 a.m.
Suckerfish	1,500 Bells	Ocean	Fin	Anytime
Saw Shark	12,000 Bells	Ocean	Fin	4 p.m. to 9 a.m.
Great White Shark	15,000 Bells	Ocean	Fin	4 p.m. to 9 a.m.
Hammerhead Shark	8,000 Bells	Ocean	Fin	4 p.m. to 9 a.m.
Whale Shark	13,000 Bells	Ocean	Fin	Anytime
Blue Marlin	10,000 Bells	Pier	Large	Anytime