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 ...

Rob Tressler's rockfish would almost assuredly have been a new ... That would have erased the current California record for the species, which weighed 17 pounds, 8 ounces, and was caught off the coast ...

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.

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 ...