Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife Fish Management
Washington
Coastal Bottomfish
Targeted
by recreational fishermen
Cabezon
Flatfish (except Pacific halibut)
Greenlings
Lingcod
Pacific Cod
Rockfish
Sablefish
Incidental
to the recreational catch
Pacific hake
Pacific tomcod
Ratfish
Skate
Soupfin
Spiny Dogfish
Walleye Pollock
Wolf-eel
Wrymouth

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Fishery Action Notices
20 Fathom Rule (Marine Areas 3 & 4)
30 Fathom Rule (Marine Area 2)

Bottomfish Common to the Waters off Washington State

Cabezon
Cabezon
Scorpaenichthys marmoratus

Cabezon
Scorpaenichthys marmoratus

Commonly caught by recreational fishers.
Recreational Harvest Chart

Description: Unscaled. Upper preopercular spine stout, slightly curved. A large branched cirrus above eye. A skin flap on snout. 5 soft rays in pelvic fin. Brown, reddish, or greenish above; whitish or greenish below.

Size: To 72 cm (28 ½ inches)

Range/Habitat: Sitka, Alaska, to central Baja. Intertidal and to 250 feet (76 meters).

Source: Pacific Coast Fishes
Peterson’s Field Guide
Eschmeyer/Herald/Hammann 1983


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