redfish

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A bright red marine food fish (Sebastes marinus) of North Atlantic waters.
• noun Any of several other fishes that are reddish in color, especially the red drum.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun An Australian holothurian, Actinopyga obesa.
• noun The blue-backed salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka.
• noun The red perch or rose-fish, Sebastes marinus or viviparus.
• noun The labroid fish Trochocopus or Pimelometopon pulcher; the fathead. See cut under fathead.
• noun The red-drum, Sciæna ocellata or Sciænops ocellatus; the southern red-horse.
• noun A preparation of fish, very popular among the Malays.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The blueback salmon of the North Pacific; -- called also nerka. See blueback (b).
• noun The rosefish.
• noun A large California labroid food fish (Trochocopus pulcher); -- called also fathead.
• noun The red bass, red drum, or drumfish. See the Note under drumfish.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Edible red rockfish, Sebastes marinus, found in North America, also called rosefish or ocean perch.
• noun A large red edible fish, Sciaenops ocellata, also called channel bass or red drum.
• noun A slimehead.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico
• noun North Atlantic rockfish
• noun male salmon that has recently spawned