Vermilion rockfish (Sebastes miniatus) is a saltwater species recorded in the United States. It is mainly found over reef, rocky, at depths of 6–250 m.
Scientific name: Sebastes miniatus · Water: Saltwater
Size: up to 91 cm
Weight: up to 6.8 kg
The vermilion rockfish (Sebastes miniatus), also called the vermilion seaperch, red snapper, red rock cod or rasher, is a stocky Sebastinae rockfish with three indistinct yellow-orange stripes radiating from the eyes, a continuous dorsal fin with a deep notch, and a slightly forked tail. It occurs in the eastern Pacific from San Quintin in Baja California north to Prince William Sound, Alaska, in and around rocky reefs at depths from 6 to 250 m, sometimes in aggregations or small schools, and it is thought to move between reefs; it is ovoviviparous, maturing at four to seven years and about 35 cm, and adults feed almost exclusively on fishes, squid, octopuses and krill. In the United States it is a celebrated southern and central California boat rockfish, taken on squid or fish strips fished tight to rocky structure, while shore anglers get the occasional smaller fish from piers and jetties. It reaches a maximum total length of about 91 cm and 6.8 kg.
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