How to Use rockfish in a Sentence

rockfish

noun
  • Also in house this week is fresh rockfish and dover sole fillets.
    — Steve Edwards, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Jan. 2018
  • The flavor is rather mild, a little like rockfish or striped bass.
    — G. Daniela Galarza, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
  • Coastal bottom-fishing is very good for black rockfish and lingcod.
    — Mark Yuasa, The Seattle Times, 24 May 2017
  • No more boat rides on Chesapeake Bay to fish for rockfish or croaker.
    — Brian Hamilton, SI.com, 13 Sep. 2016
  • Queen of Hearts and Riptide worked spots south of town for lingcod and rockfish.
    — sacbee, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Halibut, Lingcod and rockfish such as black bass are here all summer.
    — Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • The process is used to catch rockfish, but can damage deep sea corals and other sensitive habitat.
    — Deborah Sullivan Brennan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 Apr. 2018
  • These are excellent tides for salmon, halibut, rockfish and lingcod.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 27 June 2019
  • Common catches were kelp greenling, black rockfish and perch, but cabezon and even a limit of lingcod came up.
    — Bee Staff, sacbee, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Shore fishers had great catches of lings, rockfish, cabezon and kelp greenling at Old Mill.
    — sacbee, 19 Aug. 2017
  • All passengers have their own seats and portholes to look for garibaldi, urchins, rockfish and bat rays, among other sea life.
    — Kathie Bozanich, Orange County Register, 22 May 2017
  • Salmon have been scarce in the Monterey region, and most anglers have switched to sure-thing limit rockfish trips.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 10 June 2018
  • Trinidad is a popular spot for crabbing and fishing for rockfish and salmon, as well as lagoon and ocean kayaking.
    — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian, 5 June 2018
  • The small, oily fish help form the base of the bay’s food chain and are a significant source of food for rockfish and other bay predators.
    — Scott Dance, baltimoresun.com, 19 Sep. 2019
  • The striped bass—also known as rockfish—is the official fish of the State of Maryland.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 3 May 2024
  • Another consensus is using the carcasses of rockfish for bait can get your trap filled with rock crabs.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 8 Dec. 2019
  • Boats are targeting black rockfish throughout the Gulf and along the Aleutians.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2020
  • There’s also a chance that DeGraff’s rockfish would have outweighed the current world record.
    — Outdoor Life, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Arctic Choice will have fresh coho salmon, along with rockfish, sablefish, halibut and oysters.
    — Steve Edwards, Alaska Dispatch News, 23 Aug. 2017
  • Some years, the tribute might be a turkey, or fish; a few members of the tribe still fish the river each spring with nets for shad, herring and rockfish.
    — Andrew Sharp, Outdoor Life, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The limit on party boats this year is 10 Dungeness crab, 10 rockfish.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 27 Oct. 2019
  • The surface of the three-dimensional fish is made from hundreds of smaller rockfish connected to form the fish body.
    — Erika Butler, baltimoresun.com, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Katie Leslie is sorting through ribbons of intestines belonging to a rockfish that’s been dead for 41 years.
    — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The two bright spots compared with the five-year baseline were a 17% increase in crab revenues and a 6% increase for rockfish.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 19 Jan. 2021
  • Reel Steel ran down coast to Cape Mendocino and found easy pickings on rockfish and lingcod.
    — By Roger George and Dave Hurley, sacbee.com, 6 June 2017
  • In other parts of the world, catch rates for species like cod and rockfish have fallen by 50 to 70 percent in the days after seismic tests.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 6 July 2017
  • New Sea Angler fished off of Point Reyes for lingcod to 13 pounds and rockfish to 8 pounds.
    — By Roger George and Dave Hurley, sacbee.com, 9 May 2017
  • Although abundant today, rockfish was nearly wiped out in the last half of the 20th century, Yeck says.
    — Catherine M. Allchin, The Seattle Times, 27 June 2018
  • Sea Wolf ran through the Golden Gate and made mincemeat of rockfish and lingcod at the Farallones.
    — sacbee, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Along the Half Moon Bay jetty, kids were fishing gaps between the rocks and having fun catching perch and smallish rockfish.
    — sacbee, 29 Jan. 2018

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