Raw Fish Meat

Meat from fish

Raw Fish Meat is the uncooked meat harvested from fish in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. Its tooltip warns: "Eating raw food will SLIGHTLY sate hunger, but is unhealthy for humans. Most wild carnivores prefer raw meat to cooked meat." It feeds survivors and carnivores, helps tame unconscious carnivores and cooks into Cooked Fish Meat.

Eating it and feeding it

• Survivors: a piece eaten raw gives 5 food and takes away 1.5 health. Compared with Raw Meat, it restores less food and costs less health.
• Carnivores: wild or tamed, they gain 25 food and 2.5 health from each piece, half of what Raw Meat gives. A Baryonyx recovers 7.5 health instead.
• Taming: put it into the inventory of an unconscious carnivore you want to tame.

Cooking and shelf life

A Campfire or an Industrial Grill turns it into Cooked Fish Meat, the single recipe it goes into in our records, with 1 raw piece per craft. In a Campfire this takes 20 seconds. The cooked version fills more and spoils more slowly. Raw, it spoils after 20 minutes (1200 seconds). A piece weighs 0.1 and a stack holds 40, for a full stack weight of 4.

Collecting fish meat

It can be harvested from fish such as the Coelacanth, Piranha, Sabertooth Salmon, Manta, Megalodon and Leedsichthys. Our records name the Argentavis, Baryonyx, Giganotosaurus and Sarco as creatures that gather it. For an easy supply, the ARK Wiki suggests setting an Otter or Ichthyornis to wander near a lake or pond, where it kills fish and collects the meat by itself. For large amounts it points to caves such as The Caverns of Lost Faith, The Caverns of Lost Hope or the Snow Cave, and to the Basilosaurus, which tends to have many Manta around it. Our records also count 77 loot crate types that can contain it, including the Fishing Meat (Net) crate and the Candy Corn B crate of the Fear Evolved Event.