[FIXED] Fish Notifications For Inactive Households/ Sims without skill

This is also happening to me but I don’t own island living yet. It’s weird to have constant messages pop up saying that a Sim which I’m not playing and isn’t my current active household is discovering about new fish.

This also started happening for me as soon as the fishing patch was out. It's really annoying.

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We are currently looking into this report but we have been running into issues when trying to reproduce it. If anybody would be willing to share their save file with us, that would be super awesome!!! 🥳

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Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Occasionally (10% - 49%)
What is your current game version number? 1.58.69.1010
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Cats & Dogs City Living Get Famous Get to Work Get Together Seasons Dine Out Outdoor Retreat Spa Day Strangerville Vampires Backyard Stuff Bowling Night Stuff Laundry Day Stuff Movie Hangout Stuff Romantic Garden Stuff Spooky Stuff Vintage Glamour Stuff
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? I wish I had a good answer for you, but it just happens out of the blue. My sim won't be doing anything in particular when this occurs.
What happens when the bug occurs? For absolutely no reason, a notification will pop up, informing me that my sim has just identified a type of fish. This happens every couple of days (in the real world). And I haven't found a pattern. I have no idea what triggers this, but it happens all the time. They'll just be, say, hanging out in their house, talking to a friend, and suddenly it says they discovered a Goldfish. It's been doing this for the past couple updates. Not sure exactly when it started, but it was NOT the most recent update. A few months? In the image I attached, I had to click on Notification Wall so you could see it because otherwise, the notification disappears after a few seconds, like normal.
What do you expect to see? Sims should only discover fish when fishing.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? No

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For absolutely no reason, a notification will pop up, informing me that my sim has just identified a type of fish. This happens every couple of days (in the real world). And I haven't found a pattern. I have no idea what triggers this, but it happens all the time. They'll just be, say, hanging out in their house, talking to a friend, and suddenly it says they discovered a Goldfish. It's been doing this for the past couple updates. Not sure exactly when it started, but it was NOT the most recent update. A few months?
In the image I attached, I had to click on Notification Wall so you could see it because otherwise, the notification disappears after a few seconds, like normal.

I was confused by this too, but I think it happens when the Sims talk about "finding the best fishing holes".  Look for the that interaction and choose it and see if the fish notification shows up.

This has been happening since the patch preceding IL. That patch contained the fishing overhaul, which contained various new socials for fishing. Now anytime you and a friend chat about the local fishing holes, you can discover a new fish - which is most of the time, unless you've discovered them all in your notebook since that patch.

Having this happen on PS4 also. A previously played sim that is no longer part of the household learns about a fish and my active household is notified about it. I also have already shared this save.

On a brand new save, my active sim learned about fish from the first person she spoke to! She has no skill in fishing. 

On my current save, my sims have no skill at all in fishing. None. They learn about fishing from each other all the time!