Tiger Rockfish

At a glance

Tiger Rockfish (Sebastes nigrocinctus) is a bony-fish species with specific harvest rules tracked in 1 of 66 jurisdictions covered by CatchRules.

Confirmed by 319 research-grade iNaturalist observations, with British Columbia, Alaska, and Oregon the top jurisdictions by observation count.

Notable details

• Sports five bold black vertical bars on a red-to-pink body — one of the most striking Pacific rockfish.
• Can live up to 116 years, placing it among the longest-lived fish in the North Pacific.
• Highly territorial and typically solitary, each individual defending its own rocky outcrop.
• Reaches about 24 inches (61 cm) in length.
• Found from Alaska to southern California, generally at depths of 50–300 meters.

Where Tiger Rockfish are seen

• British Columbia274 iNat obs
• Alaska19 iNat obs
• Oregon11 iNat obs
• Washington8 iNat obs
• California7 iNat obs

Background

The tiger rockfish (Sebastes nigrocinctus), also called tiger seaperch, banded rockfish and black-banded rockfish, is a fish found in rocky reefs and boulder fields. It is found in the northeast Pacific Ocean off Kodiak Island, and from Prince William Sound, Alaska, south to Point Buchon, central California. This species of fish is territorial, and somewhat aggressive in certain cases. The fish…

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