(CN) - The National Marine Fisheries Service has removed a rockfish from the national List of Endangered Species and eliminated its habitat designation due to new genetic information. The action ...

Today’s announcement proposes to designate 1,184 square miles for canary rockfish and bocaccio and 574 square miles for yelloweye rockfish. The marine waters in the proposal include near-shore kelp ...

The agency says an analysis found that Puget Sound canary rockfish aren't genetically distinct from coastal populations. The federal agency listed the long-living bottom dweller as threatened in 2010.

“Some rockfish can live to be 100 years old, so wiping out Puget Sound rockfish is like clearcutting an old-growth forest.” In 2010 the National Marine Fisheries Service listed the Puget Sound/Georgia ...

The burnt-red yelloweye and goldfish-orange canary rockfish that roam the Georgia Basin and Puget Sound’s icy deep were listed Tuesday as threatened species.

If the allowable bycatch mortality for canary or yelloweye rockfish is met in a season, some fisheries could close early. The package sent to saltwater anglers includes a Shelton Fish Descender, ...

In a move sure to raise the ire of fishermen, the Pacific Fishery Management Council last week voted to close shore- and ocean-based recreational fishing for groundfish in federal waters off ...

SEATTLE — Fishery officials say they are considering populations of canary rockfish and petrale sole rebuilt. The Seattle Times reports that the Pacific Fishery Management Council says the ...

Sport anglers may keep one canary rockfish in their daily catch limit of seven rockfish off Ilwaco and Westport. The overall daily limit on bottom-fish has been reduced from 12 to nine fish along ...

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 ...

Canary rockfish and vermilion rockfish can get huge, and both provide excellent eating as well. The deep reefs also host a good number of lingcod this time of year.

NOAA Fisheries said Monday that last week’s decision comes after a recent study found Puget Sound/Georgia Basin canary rockfish are not genetically different from other canary rockfish found ...