ocean perch

noun

Definition of OCEAN PERCH

: any of several marine scorpaenid food fishes (genus Sebastes):

a : redfish a; also : a related food fish (S. fasciatus)

b : one (S. alutus) abundant in the northeastern Pacific from Japan to the Bering Sea to southern California

1943

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