In 2025, the last full year of PacFIN data, West Coast commercial fishermen landed 26.7 thousand pounds of black-and-yellow rockfish worth $261.6 thousand, averaging $9.81 per pound. Ex-vessel value rose 1% from 2024, and average price per pound rose 8%. Ranked by total catch value, black-and-yellow rockfish is 51st among the 263 species and species groups reported to PacFIN and tracked by Cormorant.
Oregon landings of black-and-yellow rockfish total less than 1% of ex-vessel value (or are confidential) and are not charted.
All reported 2025 ex-vessel value for black-and-yellow rockfish came from California, though landings also occurred in Oregon in small or confidential amounts. It was landed in 10 of the 19 PacFIN port areas, 6 of them confidential, from Fort Bragg south to Morro Bay, with confidential landings as far north as Newport, Oregon, and as far south as Santa Barbara. Morro Bay led all port areas with 69% of value.
Port areas ranked by ex-vessel value with landed weight and price per pound.
6 port areas had only confidential black-and-yellow rockfish data and are excluded from these rankings.
Black-and-yellow rockfish is landed through much of the year, but 75% of 2025 landed pounds came in June–November, with July the busiest month.
In 2025, the largest share of black-and-yellow rockfish ex-vessel value came from hook and line (66%), followed by traps (34%), based on PacFIN gear-group landings.
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Data sourced from PacFIN (Pacific Fisheries Information Network) and carries the limitations of that source, including reporting lags and confidentiality thresholds for landings with fewer than 3 vessels. Cormorant does not guarantee accuracy and is not a substitute for official fisheries reporting.