Rockfish is a common term for several species of fish, referring to their tendency to hide among rocks.

The name rockfish is used for many kinds of fish used for food.^[1] Thiscommon name belongs to several groups that are not closely related, and can be arbitrary.^[2]

Specific examples of fish termed rockfish include:

• The familySebastidae, marine fishes that inhabit oceans around the world. They may be included in the familyScorpaenidae.^[3]
  • Sebastes,^[4] a commercially important genus of fish in the Sebastidae inhabiting mainly the North Pacific, but with a few species in the North Atlantic and southern oceans
  • In Washington State, many species ofSebastes and a few ofSebastolobus are called rockfish.^[5]
• Acanthoclinus, a genus of fish from New Zealand
• Bull huss or bull huss (Scyliorhinus stellaris), a shark known asrock salmon when used in cuisine
• Hexagrammos, a genus ofgreenling from the North Pacific
• Hypoplectrodes, a genus of fish in the familySerranidae
• Salvelinus, a genus of fish in thesalmon family
• Thestonefishes (genusSynanceia),venomous fishes from the Indo-Pacific
• Striped bass (Morone saxatilis), called rockfish on the Atlantic coast of North America from New Jersey south^[6]
• Groupers, fish in the subfamilyEpinephelinae
• Certain fish of genusScorpaena, such as theMadeira rockfish (S. maderensis), a common Mediterranean species
• Myliobatis goodei, which is sometimes called "rockfish"

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