The fisherman should be easily identified, but can you idendify this rockfish caught in northern B.C.?

yes, same as your name in a way

It looks like a boccacio.

Iggie

Canary.

Getting a beter look at it here on the big screen... I dont see the classic face stripes of a Canary, but the lateral line stripe is fairly indicitive.

Simple question
That is a Dan S.

You can tell by the Zinger.

I'm going with immature yelloweye.

Canary

Anal and pelvic fins say Canary, not Yelloweye. Beautiful fish dat.

Vermillion

Rasphead

Interesting Play on word Sebastes

CANARY

Fresh caught and pictures a quite different

Veddur

can I guess?

Can you remember?

but I know what it i is is.


Here is a hint there is one correct guess so far

Yelloweye. The color of the fish in the picture is faded looking like a Bocaccio bronze, but its lower jaw is not protruded enough. The rounded tail fin edges look like Yelloweye. There are no points on the tail to make it a Canary. I took the picture and cleaned it up until Daves bibs looked red and then the fish became orange. Its eye turns a brighter yellow too. The edges of the fins became darker too.

Printing color is going to be a detrimental for our rockfish identification for our bottom fishers in our state.

A vermillion is more of a redish and I am hearing that they are moving into the Puget Sound? News to me.

That is a very pronounce lateral line for a Yelloweye, but some are.

Rockfish colors are going to be a lot of fun as I have pictures of copper rockfish from California and they have an oragish tint and ours up here don't.

Do rockfish interbreed?

Here's photo when Mr. Vedder brought it to the surface. The holdup shot was taken a few minutes later.

I have a pretty good guess but have written a biologist in Alaska for verification.

It is really difficult to judge by photos on the internet as many of the photos were taken after various fish were taken commercially at deeper depths.

I can definitely rule out Yelloweye, AKA Rasphead, Canary,Boccassio, and Vermillion. But it gets tougher from there.

Northern?

huge copper