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UK
/ɹˈɒkfɪʃ/
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NOUN
- marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America
- the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks
- marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone
How To Use rockfish In A Sentence
- Olson's Resort, Sekiu -- April 16: Six boats with 19 anglers fishing in Areas 4 east of Tatoosh caught 13 rockfish, 14 lingcod, 15 kelp greenling and four cabezon; April 17: One boat with four anglers caught four rockfish, two kelp greenling and two sculpins. The Seattle Times
- Oceanside: 24 anglers, one half-day boat: 92 sculpin, 31 rockfish, 23 vermillion rockfish, 1 bocaccio, 3 whitefish and 20 sanddabs. Fore, right!
- Copper rockfish are opportunistic carnivores that feed mainly on organisms present near the ocean floor, usually crabs, mollusks and other fish.
- Protections for bocaccio, yelloweye and canary rockfish, a slow-growing rockfish that can outlive many humans were pushed into oblivion due to overfishing in the 1970s and 1980s. The Seattle Times
- Their diet includes squid, skates, ratfish, rockfish, and octopus, as well as pelagic fishes such as mackerel and sardines.
- Scientists generally agree that bocaccio and other rockfish can survive if pulled from depths of 60 feet or less.
- According to the report, are several species of ‘groundfish’ are at risk, including the yelloweye rockfish.
- Juvenile rockfish that reside in kelp beds are often eaten by many fishes and other marine animals.
- Olson's Resort, Sekiu - April 20: Two boats with five anglers caught five rockfish, seven lingcod, two cabezon and one kelp greenling; April 24: One boat with four anglers caught one lingcod and one cabezon. The Seattle Times
- In the case of fisheries, vessels chasing rockfish should not destroy halibut, and boats seeking shrimp should not degrade the spawning stock of redfish.
