Raw Prime Fish Meat

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Eating raw food will SLIGHTLY sate hunger, but is unhealthy for humans. This excellent cut spoils very quickly. Most wild carnivores love this meat.

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Consumable (values pertain to Humans)

Type

Meat

Food

10

Health

-1.5

Spoils in

9m 20s

Spoils to

Spoiled Meat

Item

Weight

0.1

Stack size

1 / 2

Added in

v240.0

Spawn Command

cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Consumables/PrimalItemConsumable_RawPrimeMeat_Fish.PrimalItemConsumable_RawPrimeMeat_Fish'" 1 0 0

Crafting

Used to craft

4 items

Raw Prime Fish Meat is a food item in ARK: Survival Evolved.

Harvesting[]

It can be harvested from:

It can also be obtained by fishing.

Usage[]

Raw Prime Fish Meat can be used in taming certain carnivorous dinosaurs, but with a lower efficiency than regular Raw Prime Meat. However, when taming Spinosaurus, Baryonyx, or Pelagornis, Raw Prime Fish Meat has the same efficiency as Raw Prime Meat, and in fact must be used over its normal meat counterpart. Raw prime fish meat is cooked over a campfire for a period of 20 seconds.

Gathering[]

Raw Prime Fish Meat can be effectively gathered using a metal sickle.

Raw Prime Fish Meat
Creature / Tool	Gain per action
Ichthyornis	★★★★★
Spino	★★★★★
Metal Sickle	★★★★☆
Dilophosaur	★★★☆☆
Karkinos	★★★☆☆
Metal Pick	★★★☆☆
Otter	★★★☆☆
Pulmonoscorpius	★★★☆☆
Quetzal	★★★☆☆
Terror Bird	★★★☆☆

Spoilage[]

Container	Spoiling Time	Spoiling Time in Scorched Earth
Player Inventory	9m 20s	8m 24s
Player Inventory (with Preserving Salt *)	18m 40s	16m 48s
Tamed Dino	37m 20s	33m 36s
Tamed Dino (with Preserving Salt *)	1h 14m 40s	1h 7m 12s
Hyaenodon Meatpack	1h 14m 40s	1h 7m 12s
Hyaenodon Meatpack (with Preserving Salt *)	2h 29m 20s	2h 14m 24s
Preserving Bin	1h 33m 20s	1h 24m
Preserving Bin (with Preserving Salt *)	3h 6m 40s	2h 48m
Smokehouse	2h 20m	2h 6m
Refrigerator	15h 33m 20s	14h

*Keep in mind that a full stack of preserving salts will spoil in 2 hours for all of these containers and must be restocked periodically in order to maximize the spoil time.

For more information, see Spoilage.

Notes/Trivia[]

There is currently a bug on Xbox One preventing players from collecting raw prime fish meat on many mounted dinos. Though it is still possible by using a sword, sickle or metal pick.
Creatures such as Sabertooth Salmon will NOT produce Raw Prime Fish Meat unless specifically harvested with Metal Sickle or Ichthyornis.
Unlike other rare drops which drop more frequently when harvested by a pick, a hatchet is more effective in cutting prime fish meat from a dead shark or Dunkleosteus.
Raw Prime Fish Meat resembles the sashimi fish meat, which can be eaten safely in both real-life and game as long as it is fresh (less harmful than other raw meat counterpart).

Changelog[]

Patch	Changes
312.65	Spoil time on Prime Meat and Prime Fish have doubled.