redfish

plural redfishes

1. Any of several species fish with red skin or flesh:
   1. Any member of the genus Sebastes, or edible red rockfishs.
   2. especially Sebastes norvegicus, found in North American waters, also called rosefish or ocean perch.
   3. A large red edible fish, Sciaenops ocellatus, also called channel bass or red drum.
   4. Lutjanus spp., snappers.
   5. Centroberyx affinis, eastern nannygai.
   6. Etelis oculatus, queen snapper.
   7. Rhomboplites aurorubens, vermillion snapper.
   8. A slimehead, of family Trachichthyidae.
   9. Oncorhynchus nerka, sockeye salmon.