Great Cormorant Favorite Fish — What to Serve in Scale the Depths
Great Cormorant pays its best tip for European Perch — here is exactly when to save that catch, what to avoid, and how the base and variant payouts compare.
▶ TL;DR
Serve Great Cormorant European Perch for its favorite tip (up to 126 coins total). Avoid Beithir.
- Favorite
- European Perch
- Avoid
- Beithir
- Max payout
- 126 coins
◇ How to serve Great Cormorant
Great Cormorant appears in Loch Ness and pays a favorite tip for European Perch. European Perch is Great Cormorant's signature — no other customer treats it as a favorite, so any European Perch you land has exactly one ideal buyer.
There are two versions of Great Cormorant. The base pays up to 75 (60 base + 15 tip); the rarer variant pays up to 126, a 51-coin jump for the same fish. A variant of Great Cormorant is always worth serving over the base when both are on screen — same catch, bigger payout.
Keep Beithir away from Great Cormorant — it is the one fish that lowers its payout. Everything else is fair game as long as it fills the hunger of 80.
◇ Where to catch Great Cormorant’s favorite
European Perch is caught in Loch Ness — the same world where you meet Great Cormorant, so you can serve it fresh without backtracking. It has 30 health and a feed value of 72. Scale it cleanly to clear Great Cormorant’s favorite threshold and bank the 15-coin tip.
Full stats for every catch are in the fish almanac.
◇ Who is Great Cormorant?
The great cormorant is one of the most widespread cormorants in the world. These large diving birds live near coasts, lakes, and rivers, often nesting on cliffs, trees, or rocky islets. Cormorants are powerful underwater hunters. Using their long hooked beaks and fully webbed feet, they can dive beneath the surface to chase fish, sometimes reaching depths of 10 metres and staying underwater for several minutes.
In-game species label: Phalacrocorax carbo
✓ Tips
- If you can already satisfy Great Cormorant, its variant is free extra income — the favorite and dislike lists are identical, only the numbers scale up.
- Keep the fish quality high: the 15-coin tip only lands if European Perch clears Great Cormorant's favorite threshold, so clean scaling matters more than speed here.
? Frequently asked
What is Great Cormorant's favorite fish in Scale the Depths?
Great Cormorant's favorite fish is European Perch. Serving it at a high enough scaling quality adds a 15-coin tip on top of the 60 base payment.
What fish does Great Cormorant dislike?
Great Cormorant dislikes Beithir. Serving any of these lowers the payout, so keep them for a customer who wants them instead.
How much does Great Cormorant pay in Scale the Depths?
The base Great Cormorant pays up to 75 coins and its rarer variant pays up to 126. Both share the same favorite and dislike lists.
▶ Put it into practice
Keep the full customer matchmaker open while you play, then match Great Cormorant to the right catch and bank the tip. Scale the Depths runs free in your browser.
⌬ Sources
- Neoseeker — Customer Preferences and Payouts — Full per-customer hunger, base, tip, max, favorites, dislikes, variant data.
- Last Word on Gaming — Customer Favourites Guide — Favorite-fish list, cross-checked against Neoseeker.
- Great Cormorant’s favorite and disliked fish cross-checked between both sources. Last verified 2026-06-15.
- Character art from the community Scale the Depths Wiki (CC-BY-SA), self-hosted.