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The canary rockfish (Sebastes pinniger), also known as the orange rockfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae, the rockfishes, part of the family Scorpaenidae. It is native to the waters of the Pacific Ocean off western North America.
California's sportfishing regulations prohibit the take or possession of yelloweye rockfish (also cowcod and bronzespotted rockfish). [ 12 ] As time passed, the restrictions on fishing became stricter; the 2009 Washington state quota is just 6,000 pounds (2.7 t), fewer than 1000 fish.
Sebastes is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae part of the family Scorpaenidae, most of which have the common name of rockfish. A few are called ocean perch , sea perch or redfish instead.
Sebastes chlorostictus was first formally described as Sebastichthys chlorostictus in 1880 by the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan and Charles Henry Gilbert with the type locality given as Monterey Bay in California, although the type was obtained at a San Francisco fish market. [2]
Sebastes polyspinius has 14 spines in the dorsal fin and 3 in the anal fin.The spines on the head are very weak with only the nasal spines always present while the preocular, postocular and parietal spines are normally present while the supraocular, tympanic, coronal and nuchal spines are always absent.
The Shortraker rockfish lifespan is thought to average about 120 years, the second-longest of all varieties of rockfish to the rougheye rockfish, estimated at 140 years. This makes rockfish some of the world's oldest living fish. [8] Like many other rockfishes it is a viviparous species. [4]
The rougheye rockfish (Sebastes aleutianus) is a rockfish of the genus Sebastes. It is also known as the blackthroat rockfish , rougheye seaperch , blacktip seaperch , longlife seaperch or the blacktip rockfish and grows to a maximum of about 97 cm (38 in) in length, [ 1 ] with the IGFA record weight being 14 lb 12 oz (6.7 kg). [ 2 ]
The bocaccio is one of the larger rockfish and can grow up to 3 feet (0.91 m) in length and live to 45 years. A bocaccio that is 12 inches (300 mm) long is around 3–4 years old and a 2-foot (0.61 m) long fish is 7–8 years old. [ 10 ]