rockfish
Americannoun
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any of various fishes found among rocks.
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any of the North Pacific and Atlantic marine fishes of the genus Sebastes.
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any of various fishes that live among rocks, esp scorpaenid fishes of the genus Sebastodes and related genera, such as S. caurinus ( copper rockfish ) of North American Pacific coastal waters
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Formerly called: rock salmon. any of several coarse fishes when used as food, esp the dogfish or wolffish
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Jue said he has three other types of fishing permits, which allow him to continue earning a living by catching Dungeness crab, rock crab and rockfish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025
Deepwater corals extend off the pilings like branching trees, and shoals of striped rockfish that make up roughly 90 percent of the species of fish associated with the platform’s habitat.
From National Geographic ● Aug. 8, 2023
The housemade couscous was topped with sweet, delicate rockfish cooked in tomato broth for a soothing lunch we'd see variations of across the island over the ensuing days.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2023
Found only in temperate waters, a thriving, nurturing kelp canopy and understory host hungry young salmon at an all-you-can-eat buffet, a Pacific herring’s breeding ground, and growing juvenile rockfish larvae.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 8, 2023
Captain Wallace and his son tonged for oysters in the winter, and in the summer they netted fish, chiefly menhaden and rockfish.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
“There's a real incentive in these rockfishes to grow big and live long and produce lots of high-quality larvae,” she says.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 11, 2021
In 2008, Palumbi found something similar with Pacific red snapper—the market name for a suite of species called rockfishes.
From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2013
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