In 2025, the last full year of PacFIN data, West Coast commercial fishermen landed 67 thousand pounds of brown rockfish worth $534.3 thousand, averaging $7.97 per pound. Ex-vessel value rose 61% from 2024, and average price per pound rose 7%. Ranked by total catch value, brown rockfish is 40th among the 263 species and species groups reported to PacFIN and tracked by Cormorant.
Oregon landings of brown rockfish total less than 1% of ex-vessel value (or are confidential) and are not charted.
All reported 2025 ex-vessel value for brown rockfish came from California, though landings also occurred in Oregon in small or confidential amounts. It was landed in 13 of the 19 PacFIN port areas, from Newport, Oregon, south to Santa Barbara, California, with confidential landings as far north as Columbia River (OR) and as far south as San Diego. Morro Bay led all port areas with 77% of value.
Port areas ranked by ex-vessel value with landed weight and price per pound.
4 port areas had only confidential brown rockfish data and are excluded from these rankings.
Brown rockfish is landed through much of the year, but 75% of 2025 landed pounds came in June–December, with July the busiest month.
Brown rockfish is landed almost entirely with hook and line (97% of its 2025 West Coast ex-vessel value, 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.