Black Rockfish, Sebastes
melanops
![[Black Rockfish, Sebastes melanops, fishblkrock.jpg=97KB]](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20080921153403im_/http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/kodiak/images/photo/fishblkrock.jpg)
The black rockfish, Sebastes melanops, is one of about
60 species of rockfish in the family Scorpaenidae. The black rockfish is
wide-ranging recorded from Amchitka I., one of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska,
to San Miguel Island in southern California. They are a schooling rockfish
that often congregates off rocky reefs nearshore to deep banks in open water
to 1200 feet. They are a popular sportfish known as black bass. Length to 23
inches (59 cm).
Scientific name: Greek sebastos (magnificent) and
melas (black)
and ops (face).
Digital photo by Jan Haaga. References (a complete list) in the text include: Kessler
(1985), Eschmeyer et al.
(1983), and Hart (1973).
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