19 articles
The black-and-yellow rockfish holds one crevice for years and defends it with venom-tipped spines — a lesson in how site-attached reef fish live and recover.
Dr. Elias Brandt ·
Black rockfish: the dark, schooling Sebastes of northeast Pacific kelp edges — identification vs blue rockfish, life history, fishery and conservation.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
The black-and-yellow rockfish is one of the most boldly patterned fish of California's shallow kelp reefs — dark as kelp shadow, patched with shout-yellow.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
The brown rockfish is the shallowest of the Pacific rockfish — a dusky, bay-loving homebody of kelp beds, pier piles and eelgrass edges from Alaska to Baja.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
The canary rockfish went from overfished to rebuilt in fifteen years — one of the US west coast's most instructive fisheries recovery stories.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
The China rockfish is a small, blue-black, yellow-speckled reef fish that rarely leaves its crevice. Biology, identification, habits and conservation.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
The copper rockfish (Sebastes caurinus) is a cryptic, long-lived, home-ranged reef fish of Pacific kelp forests. Biology, fishery history and how it recovers.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
The gopher rockfish is a mottled, hole-dwelling resident of California's shallow kelp reefs — sedentary, long-lived and beloved of reef divers.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Meet the grass rockfish (Sebastes rastrelliger): a shallow-water ambush predator that barely leaves home — and pays for that loyalty when the pressure comes.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
The kelp rockfish (Sebastes atrovirens) lives in the kelp canopy itself — a mottled, camouflaged hunter: identification, habitat, life history and where to see it.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Olive rockfish (Sebastes serranoides) school in the dim water above Pacific kelp beds. Profile: ID tips vs kelp rockfish, life history, fishery and role.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
The quillback rockfish is a long-lived, deep-bodied resident of Pacific kelp reefs — orange-freckled, fiercely site-loyal and one of the slowest fish to grow old.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Rosy rockfish (Sebastes rosaceus) is a small, pink-blotched rockfish of low rocky reefs from Washington to Baja. Identification, habitat, diet and ecology.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Meet the treefish (Sebastes serriceps) — the tiger-barred golden rockfish of California kelp reefs: identification, habitat, behaviour and conservation.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
The vermilion rockfish is a deep-bodied red rockfish of the mid-water reef zone. Identification, biology, barotrauma and the fishery story.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Yelloweye rockfish can live more than a century on a single reef. Identification, the barotrauma problem, and the rules helping this red giant recover.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
The blue rockfish (Sebastes mystinus) is a blue-black schooling mainstay of Pacific kelp forests. Biology, fishery and what its presence tells us.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
The tiger rockfish is a long-lived, vividly banded Pacific rockfish of deep rocky reefs and deep kelp-forest edges — beautiful, slow-growing and easily overlooked.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
A species profile of the yellowtail rockfish — the wide-ranging midwater schooler of Pacific rocky reefs, its life history, fishery, and how to tell it from its cousins.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·