Rockfish - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia

Rockfish is a common term for several species of fish, named for their affinity to hide among rocks.

Specific examples of fish termed rockfish include:

Sebastes, a genus of commercial fish that mainly inhabit the North Pacific but with a few species in the North Atlantic and southern oceans

Sebastidae, a family of marine fishes that inhabit oceans around the world. Sebastes is a genus within this family.

Acanthoclinus, a genus of fish from New Zealand

Bull huss (Scyliorhinus stellaris), also known as rock salmon, a small shark from the northeast Atlantic

Hexagrammos, a genus of greenling from the North Pacific

Hypoplectrodes, a genus of serranids from southern oceans

Salvelinus, a genus of salmonid fish

Stonefish (Synanceia), a genus of venomous fishes from the Indo-Pacific

Striped bass (Morone saxatilis), a species of fish from North America

Groupers (Epinephelus), any of a number of genera in the subfamily Epinephelinae of the family Serranidae, in the order Perciformes.

Scorpaena, e.g. Madeira rockfish (Scorpaena maderensis) a common Mediterranean species.

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