Just a short guide to all of the available crew members in the game.
 
 
All stats are their beginning value at the start of the game.
 
 
Also included a section at the end that might help a little with roleplaying.
 
 

Rudy Smith

 

Pay Percentage	1.0%
Hire cost	$17,900
Stamina	8
Pot hauling	3
Cooking	2
Repairing	4
Hand gutting	4
Machine gutting	5
Freezing	4
Stacking	2
Longline hauling	2
Net hauling	3
Pot baiting & setting	4
Sorting crabs	4
Crane operation	6
Deepline	3
Sort scallops	3
Scallop gutting	2
Dredging	2

 
 
 

Thomas Moore

 

Pay Percentage	1.7%
Hire cost	$30,900
Stamina	3
Pot hauling	2
Cooking	2
Repairing	3
Hand gutting	8
Machine gutting	9
Freezing	7
Stacking	7
Longline hauling	8
Net hauling	10
Pot baiting & setting	6
Sorting crabs	7
Crane operation	6
Deepline	5
Sort scallops	6
Scallop gutting	7
Dredging	5

 
 
 

Graham Oakley

 

Pay Percentage	2.3%
Hire cost	$43,500
Stamina	2
Pot hauling	3
Cooking	4
Repairing	5
Hand gutting	10
Machine gutting	11
Freezing	10
Stacking	12
Longline hauling	11
Net hauling	12
Pot baiting & setting	10
Sorting crabs	7
Crane operation	6
Deepline	8
Sort scallops	10
Scallop gutting	8
Dredging	11

 
 
 

Josh Comeau

 

Pay Percentage	1.3%
Hire cost	$24,700
Stamina	7
Pot hauling	4
Cooking	3
Repairing	4
Hand gutting	5
Machine gutting	5
Freezing	4
Stacking	5
Longline hauling	5
Net hauling	4
Pot baiting & setting	9
Sorting crabs	3
Crane operation	6
Deepline	3
Sort scallops	6
Scallop gutting	4
Dredging	5

 
 
 

Victor Walker

 

Pay Percentage	1.0%
Hire cost	$17,900
Stamina	9
Pot hauling	2
Cooking	1
Repairing	2
Hand gutting	3
Machine gutting	3
Freezing	4
Stacking	4
Longline hauling	4
Net hauling	3
Pot baiting & setting	6
Sorting crabs	3
Crane operation	6
Deepline	2
Sort scallops	3
Scallop gutting	2
Dredging	4

 
 
 

Isaac Green

 

Pay Percentage	2.2%
Hire cost	$37,700
Stamina	4
Pot hauling	2
Cooking	5
Repairing	9
Hand gutting	10
Machine gutting	11
Freezing	9
Stacking	8
Longline hauling	10
Net hauling	9
Pot baiting & setting	10
Sorting crabs	5
Crane operation	6
Deepline	6
Sort scallops	6
Scallop gutting	5
Dredging	7

 
 
 

Derek Clark

 

Pay Percentage	1.3%
Hire cost	$25,000
Stamina	3
Pot hauling	5
Cooking	6
Repairing	4
Hand gutting	6
Machine gutting	5
Freezing	5
Stacking	4
Longline hauling	5
Net hauling	3
Pot baiting & setting	7
Sorting crabs	3
Crane operation	6
Deepline	3
Sort scallops	5
Scallop gutting	4
Dredging	6

 
 
 

Mikael Wood

 

Pay Percentage	2.7%
Hire cost	$48,100
Stamina	2
Pot hauling	10
Cooking	8
Repairing	8
Hand gutting	12
Machine gutting	12
Freezing	14
Stacking	10
Longline hauling	12
Net hauling	12
Pot baiting & setting	11
Sorting crabs	9
Crane operation	6
Deepline	10
Sort scallops	7
Scallop gutting	5
Dredging	6

 
 
 

Pearl Myrland

 

Pay Percentage	1.4%
Hire cost	$27,000
Stamina	8
Pot hauling	6
Cooking	2
Repairing	5
Hand gutting	6
Machine gutting	5
Freezing	5
Stacking	4
Longline hauling	6
Net hauling	4
Pot baiting & setting	10
Sorting crabs	3
Crane operation	6
Deepline	4
Sort scallops	5
Scallop gutting	6
Dredging	4

 
 
 

Emma King

 

Pay Percentage	1.5%
Hire cost	$29,200
Stamina	5
Pot hauling	8
Cooking	9
Repairing	2
Hand gutting	8
Machine gutting	7
Freezing	4
Stacking	3
Longline hauling	5
Net hauling	8
Pot baiting & setting	7
Sorting crabs	7
Crane operation	6
Deepline	6
Sort scallops	5
Scallop gutting	5
Dredging	4

 
 
 

Nora Ross

 

Pay Percentage	1.9%
Hire cost	$31,500
Stamina	2
Pot hauling	5
Cooking	12
Repairing	4
Hand gutting	7
Machine gutting	8
Freezing	5
Stacking	4
Longline hauling	10
Net hauling	12
Pot baiting & setting	9
Sorting crabs	5
Crane operation	6
Deepline	5
Sort scallops	3
Scallop gutting	2
Dredging	4

 
 
 

Sadie Lewis

 

Pay Percentage	1.6%
Hire cost	$30,900
Stamina	3
Pot hauling	6
Cooking	10
Repairing	3
Hand gutting	6
Machine gutting	7
Freezing	6
Stacking	5
Longline hauling	7
Net hauling	6
Pot baiting & setting	7
Sorting crabs	7
Crane operation	6
Deepline	7
Sort scallops	5
Scallop gutting	4
Dredging	6

 
 
 

Crew Roles and Training Template for Roleplaying

This section is entirely, purely my own opinion.
 
 
I don’t know about you, but it’s always bothered me that it always ends up that my best crew member, my longest-tenured and most-skilled guy, inevitably ends up being my lowest paid employee because I had to hire them when I had no money and necessarily just hired the cheapest person. We don’t have the ability to alter their pay, so the best we can do is hire and train guys for the roles we want them to have, with proportionate pay for their skills.
 
 
(Eventually, ideally, if you play the game long enough, all of your crew members will be maxed out just from working and the pay will be inequitable again, but there’s nothing we can do about that.)
 
 
Fortunately the game devs have recently given us the ability to train our crew for the skills we want (for cash), so we can tailor people for specific roles.
 
 
This is a guide for my suggested setup.
 
 
Easiest to execute when you have a ton of spare cash sitting around to spend on crew training. I suggest using one set of 6 characters to build up that money, then hire the other 6 to tailor to these roles. That’s what I did, anyways.
 
 
With all of that in mind, I’ve worked out what I think are roles and skills for each available crew member in the game that will make sense for their level of pay.
 
 

• 1.0% base cut for all employees.
• Fish skills and gutting skills require more expertise than Crab/Lobster or Scallop skills, so they get a bonus.
• Those who have Cooking, Repair, Crane, or Dredging skills also get paid more.

 
Names in bold are the people I have on my own 6-man crew and are who I fish with in the game, chosen simply because they are the easiest to visually distinguish; Derek and Victor are easiest to confuse, but Isaac and Mikael, and Pearl and Nora are also similar looking.
 
 
After the names are my recommendations for how you should build up their skills, but of course you are free to do whatever you want. This is just what I’ve found works well for me. I feel like it’s a balanced crew and I can always make a good combination out of them that will have all the relevant necessary skills for any non-trawling vessel, and it helps me to not feel bad about their paychecks relative to their experience with me.
 
 
Number in parentheses is how many of each role I think you should have for a 6-man crew. Number after name is their cut percentage.
 
 
“Fish skills” = Hand gutting, Machine gutting, Longline hauling, Net hauling, Deepline
 
 
“Crab/Lobster skills” = Pot hauling, Pot baiting & setting, Sorting crabs, Crane operation
 
 
“Scallop skills” = Sort scallops, Scallop gutting, Dredging (of course if you don’t have the Scallops DLC, just ignore all of these)
 
 
Deck boss (1):
 
Your right hand man. The guy in charge right behind you. He deals with the crew so you don’t have to. Has mastered every station on every boat. Doesn’t cook. Gets paid the most.
 
 
Mikael Wood 2.7%
 
Graham Oakley 2.3%
 
Isaac Green 2.2%
 

• Has all skills except Cooking

 
Engineer (1):
 
Your deck boss’s right hand man. Master of all the mechanics. Their expertise warrants extra pay. Doesn’t do hand gutting, but can cook. (My story for this guy in my game is he was a seafood chef who went out fishing to learn where his ingredients came from and fell in love with it, so he switched professions)
 
 
Graham Oakley 2.3%
 
Isaac Green 2.2%
 
Nora Ross 1.9%
 
Thomas Moore 1.7%
 

• Has all skills except Hand gutting and Scallop gutting

 
Jr Engineer (1):
 
Your backup engineer. Can also do gutting and grunt work.
 
 
Nora Ross 1.9%
 
Thomas Moore 1.7%
 
Sadie Lewis 1.6%
 
Emma King 1.5%
 

• Repair
• Hand Gutting
• Machine Gutting
• Freezing
• Stacking
• all Crab/Lobster skills
• all Scallop skills

 
Fish Specialist (1):
 
Has all the skills for all types of non-shellfish fishing. Also can cook, and has a steady hand for scallop gutting.
 
 
Thomas Moore 1.7%
 
Sadie Lewis 1.6%
 
Emma King 1.5%
 
Pearl Myrland 1.4%
 

• Cooking
• all Fish skills
• Scallop gutting

 
Shell Crew/General Labor (2):
 
The grunts and the f**kin’ new guys. Just warm bodies to get hard labor done. Paid the least. Derek and Josh can run the cranes, and cook, so they get paid more than Rudy and Victor.
 
 
Derek Clark 1.3%
 
Josh Comeau 1.3%
 

• Cooking
• Freezing
• Stacking
• all Crab/Lobster skills
• Scallop sorting
• Dredging

 
Rudy Smith 1.0%
 
Victor Walker 1.0%
 

• Freezing
• Stacking
• Pot hauling
• Pot baiting & setting
• Sorting crabs
• Scallop sorting

 
 

 
 
Here we come to an end for Fishing: North Atlantic All Character Information + Crew Guide hope you enjoy it. If you think we forget something to include or we should make an update to the post let us know via comment, and we will fix it asap! Thanks and have a great day!