Sixty cabezon juveniles will be released into the Southern California waters Friday ... If successful, the release ‘could rebuild rockfish populations much sooner than nature working alone ...

However, fishermen will be allowed to target other species of rockfish in the Cow Cod Conservation Area about 60 miles off the Southern California coast. The actions, along with NOAA’s order ...

In an unprecedented move to protect endangered rockfish, a government council has ordered an emergency ban on bottom fishing off most of the California coast. Fishermen said the action Thursday ...

Found in coastal waters from California to Japan, rockfish are a colorful group of more than 120 species in the genus Sebastes. Some of these closely related species live for only a decade.

an economically important rockfish species along the West Coast of North America and was abundant from Oregon to northern Baja California. Overfishing has reduced the stock to less than one-tenth ...