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TAXONOMY
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes0
Order: Scorpaeniformes (Scorpionfishes and flatheads)
Family: Sebastidae (Rockfishes, rockcods and thornyheads)
Genus/species: Sebastes melanops
NOTE Eschmeyer (CAS curator emeritus) and others recognize Sebastidae as a separate family that includes only the rockfishes. Others place rockfish together with scorpionfish in the
single family Scorpaenidae.
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS: Black to blue black mottled with gray. Some individuals have lighter patches on back and a gray lateral stripe from head to tail. It is originally all-black, but turns a mottled gray on the sides with age, often nearing white. Lacks the dark head bands of the blue rockfish; also has more gray, a smaller mouth, and a longer jaw than the blue. Length to 64 cm (25 in).
DISTRIBUTION: West Coast of North America (Eastern Pacific: Amchitka Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska to Paradise Cove, Baja California, Mexico) where populations are stable.[ Found to a depth of 366 m.
DIET IN THE WILD: Fishes
REPRODUCTION: Sebastes sp.rockfish are slow-growing and extremely long-lived with black rockfish becoming sexually mature only after 6 to 8 years of age (max. reported age: 50 years). They have an elaborate courtship display followed by copulation and transfer of sperm via a modified urogenital papilla on the male.
The females store sperm in the ovaries for several months until ovulation then fertilization of the eggs. They are viviparous. The larvae mature in shallow water.
CONSERVATION: IUCN; Not evaluated
California Rocky Coast CC06
References
fishbase www.fishbase.org/summary/3979
eol eol.org/pages/209605/hierarchy_entries/27948249/details#m...
flickr www.flickr.com/photos/cas_docents/collections/72157608333...
Taken 7-11-12, 9-4-12, 5-23-14
Less than 30 miles from the Continental Divide, the Flathead River is large enough for challenging raft rides. This is along US-2 on the southern border of Glacier National Park.
Built between 1948 and 1953 by the Bureau of Reclamation under the Grand Coulee Power Office, this modernist-style concrete arch-gravity dam impounds the Hungry Horse Reservoir on the South Fork of the Flathead River near Hungry Horse, Montana. The dam allows for water storage, flood control, hydroelectric power generation, and extensive recreation for the area. The dam contains 3.1 million cubic yards (2.4 million cubic meters) of concrete, stands 564 feet (172 meters) tall, being the 10th tallest concrete dam in the United States, is 2,115 feet (645 meters) long, and features the highest glory hole-style emergency spillway in the world. The dam impounds a reservoir 34 miles long, which contains 3.5 million acre-feet of water storage, with the surface elevation at full pool being 3,560 feet (1,085 meters) above sea level. The dam produces 428 megawatts of electricity. The reservoir has several log booms deployed behind the dam in order to prevent logjams at the intakes and spillway, with no recreational watercraft being permitted in the area between these and the dam itself. The dam, though located a bit off the beaten path, is located very close to the west entrance to Glacier National Park, only a few miles from US Highway 2.