Chilipepper

Sebastes goodei, the chilipepper rockfish and chilipepper, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae, the rockfishes, part of the family Scorpaenidae. This species lives mainly off the coast of western North America from Baja California to Vancouver.

Chilipepper rockfish is considered an excellent food fish and an important commercial catch in California waters.

The chilipepper rockfish lives in the eastern Pacific along western North America, from Queen Charlotte Sound in British Columbia south to Baja California. Adults stay near rocky reefs and sand or mud bottoms, while young fish drift in shallower open water. It is fished mostly off California.