rockfish Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks
  2. noun marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America
  3. noun marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone
    striper; striped bass; Roccus saxatilis.

WordNet

Rock"fish` noun
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of several California scorpænoid food fishes of the genus Sebastichthys, as the red rockfish (S. ruber). They are among the most important of California market fishes. Called also rock cod, and garrupa. (b) The striped bass. See Bass. (c) Any one of several species of Florida and Bermuda groupers of the genus Epinephelus. (d) An American fresh-water darter; the log perch. ✍ The term is locally applied to various other fishes.

Webster 1913