Deepwater redfish

Marine fish with regularly ossified skeleton. Body elongated and compressed. Mouth wide. Head with several spines. Scales on lateral line. Dorsal fin has numerous strong spines and soft rays. Anal fin with a few spines and several soft rays; pectoral fin with soft rays. Colour bright red. Maximum total length: 55 cm. In general, the redfish species inhabit different depth strata, Sebastes mentella is a benthic and bathypelagic species, mostly offshore, not rare above the great ocean depths; found between 300 and 1000 m. Sebastes marinus lives in bays and inshore waters when they are young; the adults are found off the coast at 100 to 400 m, less commonly down to 500 m.