Grass rockfish

The Grass rockfish lives in the demersal, marine, depth range - 46 m , usually - 15 m environment.

A yellow Grass rockfish (Sebastes rastrelliger), which is unusual coloration. Most grass rockfish are olive green. Photographed at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Unusual grass rockfish A yellow Grass rockfish (Sebastes rastrelliger), which is unusual coloration. Most grass rockfish are olive green. Photographed at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. More

Fort Baker Grass Rockfish by orkspace on flickr. More

easily differentiated during cleaning - the grass rockfish has very short gill rakers on its first gill arch. The gill rakers are generally as wide as they are long. Size: Length to 22 inches; generally between 8 and 16 inches for those caught from piers. More

Fish — brown rockfish, grass rockfish, kelp rockfish, bat ray, thornback ray, cabezon, white croaker, shinerperch. January 2003 Total Fish this Month: 48 Number of Species: 12 Summary: 1-04-03 Lots of baitfish – small jacksmelt. More

The grass rockfish is found from Oregon to central Baja California. It is most common in shallow coastal waters from the tidepools to a depth of 20 feet, but occasionally as deep as 150 feet. More

Common names

grass rockfish in English
rockfish in English
Rocote de olivo in Spanish (español)
rocote olivo in Spanish (español)
縱痕平鮋 in Mandarin Chinese
纵痕平鲉 in Mandarin Chinese

Order : Scorpaeniformes
Family : Sebastidae
Genus : Sebastes
Species : Sebastes rastrelliger
Authority : Jordan and Gilbert, 1880