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Marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America
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rockfish
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n. the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes ...
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Population (2000): 2353 Housing Units (2000): 893 Land area (2000): 5.007130 sq. miles (12.968406 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.003287 sq. miles (0.008513 sq. km) Total area (2000): 5.010417 sq. miles (12.976919 sq. km) FIPS code: 57200 Located within: North ...
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Rockfish is a common term for fish of a number of species. Some may be named this for their hiding amongst rocks, bedeviling predators including humans. Specific examples of fish termed rockfish include: Sebastes , a genus of commercial fish that mainly ...
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Garrupa \Gar*ru"pa\, n. [Prob. fr. Pg. garupa crupper. Cf. Grouper the fish.] (Zo["o]l.) One of several species of California market fishes, of the genus Sebastichthys ; -- called also rockfish . See Rockfish .
Usage examples of rockfish.
The second was the near certainty of snagging a rockfish among the eddies and swirls where the north side of the tiny island rose sheer and stark from the dark green sea.
Fortunately, rockfish were tasty and they werent as picky about what and when they ate as salmon were.
Im hungry enough to eat a big rockfish all by myself and look around for more.
I can do it by stopping a train coming out of the Rockfish Gap and questioning the passengers.
Huddling in the three-sided, roofed shed where fishermen cleaned their catch, she counted the windows ten stories up and tried to ignore the fetid odor of rockfish, terrapin and hard crab.
He thought of the chill winter months spent dredging, the rise and fall of the skipjack over hard chop, the long, often frustrating search for oyster, for rockfish, for a living.
The cab dropped us at Rockfish Gap, southern gateway to Shenandoah National Park, our last long stretch of hiking before we ended part one of our big adventure.
At Rockfish Gap there is a tollbooth manned by rangers where motorists have to pay an entrance fee and thru-hikers have to acquire a backcountry hiking permit.
We had lunch with Connolly at Skyland, and then he left us to hitchhike back to his car at Rockfish Gap and return home.
On our next to last day on the trail, our sixth since setting off from Rockfish Gap, we were walking along beneath dull skies when there came an abrupt, cold roaring of wind.
She was fascinated by the enormous bait tanks teeming with squirming anchovies, amazed at the bin of fresh rockfish that was being brought up by a trio of muscled, bearded fishermen.
April we estimated there were more than a thousand concentrated near the western end of the Rockfish Gap.
He could keep ahead of the druj during the night, but the next morning they would run him down before he was halfway to the Rockfish Gap.
I lifted over the Rockfish and the spangle of lights was spread before us.
During July he tried to move along the foothills, and across the valley toward the Rockfish Gap.