Rockfish

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Rockfish may refer to:

Fishes
  • Sebastes, a genus of commercial fish used for food.
  • Sebastidae, a family of marine fishes that mainly inhabit the North Pacific and Atlantic but with a few species. Sebastes is a genus within this family.
  • Scorpaena - A widespread genus of marine fishes, often called Rockfish in Western Canada, Alaska and west coast of the USA.[1][2]
  • Bull huss (Scyliorhinus stellaris), also known as rock salmon, a small shark from the northeast Atlantic
  • New Zealand rockfish (Acanthoclinus littoreus)
  • Stonefish (Synanceia), a genus of venomous fishes from the Indo-Pacific
  • Striped bass (Morone saxatilis), a species of fish from North America
  • Hexagrammos, a genus of greenling
  • Salvelinus, a genus of salmonid fish
  • Hypoplectrodes, a genus of Serranidae
Other
  • Rockfish River, a river in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia
  • A fictitious Virginia town frequently mentioned in the TV drama The Waltons

See also

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References

  1. ↑ http://sitkasentinel.com/7/2012-05-10-22-08-10/local-news/5965-record-sized-rockfish-may-also-be-the-oldest
  2. ↑ http://www.dfg.ca.gov/marine/mspcont4.asp

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