Shortraker rockfish, Sebastes borealis, observed from a manned submersible. From: Marine Fisheries Review | Date: September 22, 1992| Author: Krieger, Kenneth | COPYRIGHT 1992 U.S. Department of Commerce. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chartered a submersible to aid in its studies of the shortraker rockfish, Sebastes borealis. Eleven dives were made in the eastern Gulf of Alaska, and rockfish were observed on four of them. This is the first documented observation of the species in its natural habitat. Twenty fish were observed in total and notes were made on their distribution, habitat and apparent indifference to the presence of the submersible. They appear to maintain a ...