Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various fishes living among rocks.
  • noun Any of various food and game fishes chiefly of the genus Sebastes of the North Pacific, having mildly venomous spines in their dorsal fins.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A name of several fishes which are found about rocks.
  • noun A codfish split, washed, and dried on the rocks.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Any one of several California scorpænoid food fishes of the genus Sebastichthys, . They are among the most important of California market fishes. Called also rock cod, and garrupa.
  • noun The striped bass. See bass.
  • noun Any one of several species of Florida and Bermuda groupers of the genus Epinephelus.
  • noun An American fresh-water darter; the log perch.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any of a large number of different species of fish, which dwell among rocks, specifically:
  • noun The rock salmon, the flesh of some fish

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America
  • noun the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks
  • noun marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone

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Examples

  • Natural Resources Police say 12.6 tons of poached striped bass, also known as rockfish, have been recovered.

    Md. police find more illegal rockfish nets Associated Press 2011

  • Maryland wildlife officials say they have confiscated another 1,100 pounds of striped bass -- also known as rockfish -- from illegal gill nets found in the Chesapeake Bay.

    Md. officials seize more illegal fish Associated Press 2011

  • Art Windemuth says officers patrolling the area found the 400-yard-long net Wednesday morning with up to 400 pounds of striped bass, also known as rockfish.

    More illegal rockfish nets found in Md. 2011

  • The season closed after Maryland Natural Resources Police patrol boats pulled up thousands of yards of illegal nets filled with 10 tons of striped bass, also known as rockfish.

    Dismal rockfish season for Chesapeake watermen 2011

  • The season closed after Maryland Natural Resources Police patrol boats pulled up thousands of yards of illegal nets filled with 10 tons of striped bass, also known as rockfish.

    Dismal rockfish season for Chesapeake watermen 2011

  • 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 Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

  • State officials say that people shouldn't eat striped bass -- also called rockfish -- more than once a month if it comes from the Atlantic Ocean because it has too much toxic PCBs.

    Blog updates 2009

  • District Court in Greenbelt, Md., to 13 months in prison for illegally overfishing striped bass also known as rockfish, the Justice Department announced.

    unknown title 2009

  • For exceptionally long-lived species such as rockfish (Sebastes spp.), experience shows that very conservative harvest rates may need to be used and no-take marine reserves have been suggested as a tool to insure against loss of older highly productive fish.

    Fisheries and aquaculture in the North Pacific (Bering Sea) 2009

  • Groundfish include soles and cod as well as deep-water "rockfish" like colorful canary and thorny heads †"that are commonly marketed as red snapper.

    YubaNet.com 2008

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