Sebastes melanops Girard, 1856. Black Rockfish. To 69 cm (27.2 in) TL (Butler et al. 2012). Southern Bering Sea (Orr and Blackburn 2004) and Rat Island, Aleutian Islands (Brenda Konar, pers. comm. to M.L.) to northern Baja California (Kramer and O’Connell 1995). Depth: surface to 366 m (1,200 ft) (min.: Kramer and O’Connell 1995; max.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983).