rockfish
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noun, plural ( especially collectively ) rock·fish ( especially referring to two or more kinds or species ) rock·fish·es.
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any of the North Pacific and Atlantic marine fishes of the genus Sebastes.
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| —n , pl -fish, -fishes | |
| 1. | any of various fishes that live among rocks, esp scorpaenid fishes of the genus Sebastodes and related genera, such as S. caurinus (copper rockfish) of North American Pacific coastal waters |
| 2. | (Brit) Formerly called: rock salmon any of several coarse fishes when used as food, esp the dogfish or wolffish |
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Example sentences
Guides can focus on one species, such as a salmon or rockfish charter, or arrange a day of multiple species fishing.
Inform students that the garibaldi prefers warmer waters while the blue rockfish prefers colder waters.
Jump on a charter boat and reel in salmon in spring and rockfish during the summer.
Spring is trophy rockfish season and rockfish and sea trout abound during the autumn.
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