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General => Fish Talk => Fish ID sub-forum => Topic started by: mooch on May 19, 2006, 11:55:34 AM

Title: Rockfish ID photo: Greenling aka Sea Trout
Post by: mooch on May 19, 2006, 11:55:34 AM

pic1 Female

REGS: minimum size is 12 inches - Bag limit of 10 fish, 2 fish (within RCG complex)

Title: Re: Rockfish ID photo: Greenling
Post by: mooch on May 19, 2006, 11:57:05 AM

pic3 Male greenling at rockaway beach

Title: Re: Rockfish ID photo: Greenling
Post by: mooch on May 19, 2006, 11:58:28 AM

pic4 Female

Title: Re: Rockfish ID photo: Greenling aka Sea Trout
Post by: Seabreeze on May 19, 2006, 12:52:16 PM

Just clarifying for anyone reading this that on any one day you may keep only one Greenling.  Same for Cabezon.  So, if you keep a Greenling and a Cabezon, you can bring home 8 rockfish and two lings as well.

1 fish per person; also included in the 10-fish aggregate RCG Complex bag limit

Title: Re: Rockfish ID photo: Greenling aka Sea Trout
Post by: mooch on May 19, 2006, 01:10:51 PM

Female greeling at Elk

Title: Re: Rockfish ID photo: Greenling aka Sea Trout
Post by: mooch on June 17, 2007, 11:06:18 PM

female greenling at Capitola

Title: Re: Rockfish ID photo: Greenling aka Sea Trout
Post by: Sin Coast on June 18, 2007, 12:00:47 PM

The limit is actually two greenling >12 inches now.
There are two main types of greenling in California: kelp greenling and rock greenling. Again, both male and female can look very different from each other.

Rock greenling will have blue mouths and blue meat, just like cabezon and lingcod.
Pretty fish, indeed.

PK

Title: Re: Rockfish ID photo: Greenling aka Sea Trout
Post by: mooch on June 18, 2007, 12:40:34 PM

made the correction - thanks for the update!

Title: Re: Rockfish ID photo: Greenling aka Sea Trout
Post by: potto on August 29, 2007, 10:52:11 AM

Could you please explain why it is called a Greenling when it is mostly red/brown/or orange and sometimes have no green at all?

Thank you