rockfish

In this universe sharks make up 10% of the fish population, sea-bass 30% and rockfish 60%.

For instance, the study [1] below finds a biological half-life 4 times longer than that in rockfish in coastal waters.

Of those 5 sharks, 15 sea-bass, and 30 rockfish have coins in their belly.

For example bouillabaisse was made by fishermen from bony rockfish that couldn't be sold.

But so do other fish like lingcod and some rockfish.

Doesn't have to be that deep; rockfish live at about 100m and don't survive a trip to the surface unless very carefully returned back to depth.

I used to believe it until I began reading salmon reports and various population studies for species like rockfish and lingcod, key commercial species.

Man Australia has it all though, 8/10 of the deadliest spiders, half the deadliest snakes, crocodiles, rockfish, and now firebirds.

We’ve extirpated several species, caused numerous salmon population extinctions and collapses, the near extinction of a resident killer whale pod, caused the collapse of multiple species of rockfish - the list goes on.

They did mention they were looking at a couple of long lived examples like rockfish that live 200 years vs killifish that live for 1, so this seems to be variable among fish at least.

The fin ray and scale based ages used in West Coast ground fishery management in the 80s resulted in systemic under aging that contributed to the over fishing and collapse of multiple rockfish species, for example.

On the Pacific coast of the US many retailers (whole foods, etc.) sell fish from the genus Sebastes ("rockfish") as "pacific snapper," though it isn't in Lutjanidae (snappers).

I used to do rockfish research in California and individuals of species that are routinely taken as commercial and sport fish are well over 50 yrs old (China rockfish, vermillion rockfish, yellow-eye rockifsh)[2]; most consumers who have fish and chips or a "cod" sandwich or whatever in California are eating one of these species, but at the point of sale you can almost never find out which species.

The Chesapeake Bay had enormous oyster beds, with oysters being described as "the size of dinner plates", and John Smith said that he thought he could have walked across it on the backs of fish, and if you know how to dry or salt fish it doesn't matter that the sturgeon and rockfish are seasonal.

Rockfish Interactive made a mobile app for (and used by) the Mitt Romney campaign.

Rockfish are among the least-expensive fish at our local market.