4 Comments New Species: Green Spotted Rockfish

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   Capt Paul Mandella

   on Feb 09, 2011
   at 8:07 am

   NICE EYES!!!!! I assume that is the water depth entering into play there 🙂

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2. 

   JM

   on Feb 09, 2011
   at 8:49 am

   Congrats on the new species. I always like to catch new fish. I normally catch something new in the surf every year , caught two species last year that were unidentifiable and I still wonder what the heck they were.

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3. 

   socalsalty

   on Feb 09, 2011
   at 9:22 am

   Thanks guys for stopping by. Yeah, the eyes are kind of freaky. You can see though…if you go back to my Aquarium of the Pacific post, that they aren’t like that when they are alive. As you suspect Paul, it’s from being brought up from deep depths. The other crazy thing is that in a lot of these fish, especially the salmon groupers, their air bladder blows up and it looks like they’re sticking a tongue out at you.

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4. 

   jackpotjimmy

   on Aug 01, 2011
   at 11:07 pm

   I’d always hear captains from Redondo and MDR leave audio reports saying they caught “boscos” while they were rockfishing. In Dana Point we just called them “green spots”. Same thing with the speckled rockfish or “bankies”, they call them “belindas”. I wonder where these nicknames got started…

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