Shortraker rockfish (Sebastes borealis) is a saltwater species recorded in the United States. It is found at depths of 0–1200 m.
Scientific name: Sebastes borealis · Water: Saltwater
Size: up to 108 cm
The shortraker rockfish is a sebastid found on soft bottoms, recorded from the surface down to 1,200 m, and it is viviparous. Its range is the North Pacific, from southern Japan to south-eastern Kamchatka and Navarin Canyon in the Bering Sea, and along Stalemate and Bowers Banks and the Aleutian Islands south to Point Conception in California. Maximum length is about 108 cm total length, and it can live 157 years, maturing at about 47 cm. It is a gamefish. Fishing vulnerability is high to very high at 74 of 100 and resilience very low; no IUCN assessment is recorded for it.
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