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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
- Juveniles are taken by rockfishes and larger cabezon, as well as by lingcod and other sculpins.
- These places would offer safe havens where big, prolific bocaccio and other rockfish could breed and spawn.
- When fishing around the jetties you'll also find an array of other fish like flounder, rockfish, lingcod, sea bass and cabezon. The Seattle Times
- As of May 2007, the partners involved agreed that UBC food service would avoid: shrimp products that were not from local trap fisheries, wild bivalve shellfishes and non-native farmed species, snapper or rockfish, tuna caught via long-line fishing, rainbow trout and steelhead reared in net pens or floating cages, swordfish, monkfish, and sevruga caviar. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
- This questions the role upwelling plays in affecting juvenile rockfish condition.
- Vast numbers of rockfish at various life stages, especially widows, yellowtails, and blues, which tend to school in midwater, and some deeper-water species such as yelloweyes, canaries, vermilions, and bocaccios, which are not typically seen near shore.
- Yields of herring, sea urchin and rockfish also dropped dramatically during this season.
- Not only does the recipe say it serves 6 to 9 who can divide by 9?, but by my quick read, even if you settle on the 6-servings idea, making it for one would cause you to include a single chicken thigh, one lonely littleneck clam, one just-as-lonely mussel, a single jumbo shrimp and 1 1/2 ounces of rockfish, among other things. Cooking for One: Project Downscale
- For the first time, anglers off the Donegal coast of north-west Ireland have reported catching bluefin tuna and bluemouth rockfish.
- The fishin 'party' ad gone out on the reefs after rockfish, which is one of the gamiest fighters we 'ave' ere, and some of 'em runs up to fifty and sixty pounds. The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries