Rotten Fish

Rotten Fish is an in-game item representing a mass of spoiled seafood. It appears when a Fish decays completely; leaving Fish to spoil until full decay converts it into Rotten Fish. The item is described in-game as a disgusting, indeterminate blob of rotten seafood that is technically edible but strongly discouraged.

Rotten Fish has no functional uses beyond being processed at a Repair and Salvage Station to yield Bio Scrap. Players can bring Rotten Fish to a Repair and Salvage Station and scrap it to obtain Bio Scrap components. Although the item is technically consumable, eating Rotten Fish causes the player character to become Sick, so consumption is a detrimental action rather than a practical source of nutrition.

• Acquisition: produced by allowing Fish to spoil through complete decay.
• Primary use: scrapped at a Repair and Salvage Station to obtain Bio Scrap.
• Consumption: possible but inflicts the Sick status on the player character; therefore not recommended.
• Flavor: described in multiple localizations as a repulsive, shapeless mass of rotten marine foodstuff and explicitly characterized as a bad idea to eat.

There are no alternate crafting recipes, quest uses, or benefits associated with Rotten Fish reported in the available sources. Its role in gameplay is largely as a waste product that can be converted into salvage materials rather than a usable consumable.