The Rougheye rockfish is a rockfish

Sebastidae

Sebastidae is a family of marine fish in the order Scorpaeniformes. Their common names include rockfishes, thornyheads and rockcods. Despite the latter name, they are not closely related to the cods in the genus Gadus, nor the rock cod, Lotella rhacina.Not all authorities recognise this family as...

 of the genus Sebastes

Sebastes

Sebastes is a genus of fish in the family Sebastidae , most of which have the common name of rockfish. Most of the world's almost 110 Sebastes species live in the north Pacific, although two live in the south Pacific/Atlantic and four Sebastes is a genus of fish in the family Sebastidae (though...

. It grows up to 97 cm (38 in) in length, and the maximum published weight is 900 g (2 lb). Similar to the other members of its genus, it is extremely long-lived, and the maximum reported age is 140 years. The average age is 20.5 years.

Rockfish are deepwater

Deepwater

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 fish, and exist between 31°

31st parallel north

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 and 66°

66th parallel north

The 66th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 66 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane, about 61km south of the Arctic Circle. It crosses the Atlantic Ocean, Europe, Asia and North America....

 latitude

Latitude

In geography, the latitude of a location on the Earth is the angular distance of that location south or north of the Equator. The latitude is an angle, and is usually measured in degrees . The equator has a latitude of 0°, the North pole has a latitude of 90° north , and the South pole has a...

, in the North Pacific, and specifically along Japan

Japan

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 to the Navarin Canyon

Navarin Canyon

The Navarin Canyon is a submarine canyon in the Bering Sea. It is just as wide but less than half as deep as the Zhemchug Canyon, which is the largest canyon in the world....

 in the Bering Sea

Bering Sea

The Bering Sea is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean. It comprises a deep water basin, which then rises through a narrow slope into the shallower water above the continental shelves....

, to the Aleutian Islands, all the way south to San Diego, California

California

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, at depths of between 25 m (82 ft) and 900 m (2,953 ft).