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Grey Seal Favorite Fish — What to Serve in Scale the Depths

Grey Seal pays its best tip for Atlantic Salmon — here is exactly when to save that catch, what to avoid, and how the base and variant payouts compare.

▶ TL;DR

Serve Grey Seal Atlantic Salmon for its favorite tip (up to 469 coins total). Avoid Ruffe, Three-Spined Stickleback.

Grey Seal, a customer in Scale the Depths Loch Ness — favorite fish Atlantic Salmon.
Loch Ness
Grey Seal
Favorite
Atlantic Salmon
Avoid
Ruffe, Three-Spined Stickleback
Max payout
469 coins

◇ How to serve Grey Seal

Grey Seal appears in Loch Ness and pays a favorite tip for Atlantic Salmon. Atlantic Salmon is Grey Seal's signature — no other customer treats it as a favorite, so any Atlantic Salmon you land has exactly one ideal buyer.

There are two versions of Grey Seal. The base pays up to 312 (250 base + 62 tip); the rarer variant pays up to 469, a 157-coin jump for the same fish. A variant of Grey Seal is always worth serving over the base when both are on screen — same catch, bigger payout.

Keep Ruffe and Three-Spined Stickleback away from Grey Seal — those are the fish that lower its payout. Everything else is fair game as long as it fills the hunger of 410.

◇ Where to catch Grey Seal’s favorite

Atlantic Salmon is caught in Loch Ness — the same world where you meet Grey Seal, so you can serve it fresh without backtracking. It has 100 health and a feed value of 275. Scale it cleanly to clear Grey Seal’s favorite threshold and bank the 62-coin tip.

Full stats for every catch are in the fish almanac.

◇ Who is Grey Seal?

The grey seal is a large marine mammal found along the rocky shores of the North Atlantic Ocean. It belongs to the true seal family, a group of earless seals that lack any visible ear flaps. Grey seals gather in large colonies along costs and islands. While they move awkwardly on land using their short flippers in a crawling motion, they are powerful swimmers in the water and can dive to depths of around 300 metres for over an hour while searching for food. Their diet consists mostly of fish, and they must eat several kilograms each day to maintain their large bodies. Adult females usually weight around 250 kilograms, while makes can grow much larger, sometimes reaching 400 kilograms or more.

In-game species label: Halichoerus grypus

✓ Tips

  • If you can already satisfy Grey Seal, its variant is free extra income — the favorite and dislike lists are identical, only the numbers scale up.
  • Keep the fish quality high: the 62-coin tip only lands if Atlantic Salmon clears Grey Seal's favorite threshold, so clean scaling matters more than speed here.

? Frequently asked

What is Grey Seal's favorite fish in Scale the Depths?

Grey Seal's favorite fish is Atlantic Salmon. Serving it at a high enough scaling quality adds a 62-coin tip on top of the 250 base payment.

What fish does Grey Seal dislike?

Grey Seal dislikes Ruffe, Three-Spined Stickleback. Serving any of these lowers the payout, so keep them for a customer who wants them instead.

How much does Grey Seal pay in Scale the Depths?

The base Grey Seal pays up to 312 coins and its rarer variant pays up to 469. Both share the same favorite and dislike lists.

▶ Put it into practice

Keep the full customer matchmaker open while you play, then match Grey Seal to the right catch and bank the tip. Scale the Depths runs free in your browser.

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