[Eru]

It's pretty good money for something that you can do while semi-afk and with little risk. I used to make a lot of money from saving up a *ton* of MiBs, mapping them all on UOAM, then going and fishing up like 100 of them at once.

But, since it's a safe way to make gold, both from PKs and from really dangerous monsters, it makes sense to have it less profitable than other ways of making money, otherwise everyone would spend all their time on boats and noone would ever see anyone else. :p