My brothers and I grew up on your book - hammered the heck out of the "seabass" and "rockcod", true and ling cod all over the Sound and the San Juans.

I think some of the slang terms grouping all bottomfish together was more prevalent in the past when many of them were considered a nuisance. With better education about preparing and eating them along with reduced opportunity with the sexier fish, fishermen began paying more attention to what they were catching and identifying them correctly. The days of going out in the sound and catching a gunny sack full of bottomfish or "rockcod" are long gone. For the record we always bled and iced even the lowly bottomfish clear back in the '70's.