Rock Fish don’t just have colorful names like canary and vermillion. They are colorful. They inspire my silly abstract fish silhouettes. I have many of these colorful “critters” for sale now at Nicki’s Knick Knacks on 101 in Port Orford. Some on canvas board and some on wood but all very reasonably priced.
Red Fish Rocks, here in Port Orford, is Oregon’s first marine reserve.
(The 70 or so fish in this family range from the Bering Sea to Baja California. Many take their common names and nicknames from their skin color: green, brown, dusky, blue, black, copper, olive, red and so on. And the deeper they live (to 300 fathoms), the brighter their coloration. Other rockfish names reflect physical characteristics: quillback, pygmy, shortbelly, longspine, yellow-eye. The most important commercial species are the Pacific ocean perch and the widow, canary, chilipepper, yelloweye, vermillion and thornyhead rockfish. The fish can range in size from 1 to 40 pounds, but 2 to 5 pounds is most common. Rockfish are caught by trolling, trawling, longlining, jigging, trapping and gillnetting — either targeted or as bycatch. Rockfish are extremely slow growing, making them susceptible to overfishing.)
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