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Fish Identification
Fish and seafood ID info.
All about our fishy friends:

Flag Rockfish
Sebastes rubrivinctus
 

Flag Rockfish
Photos copyright © 2007
Flag Rockfish
Photos copyright © 2007


From the Latin 'rubrivinctus' for red banded.
 
Common Names:
 
Identifying Characteristics:
Pinkish-white to white fish with broad stripes in bright red to orange-red to reddish-black. Bars in young tend to be solid black.
Range and Locations:
San Francisco to Northern Baja in rocky areas.
Stats:
20 inch max.
Market Forms:

 

Closing Remarks:

Redbanded rockfish are sometimes mistaken for Flag rockfish.

 

 


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