Rockfish are often featured on popular “catch and cook” YouTube channels, because they make such tasty fish tacos. But if you see this particular rockfish, you should consider throwing it back, and here’s why. The China rockfish (Sebastes nebulosus) is truly a spectacle to behold. With its dark-bluish or black body, speckled flecks of yellowish, slightly-iridescent color, and wide yellow strip along its sides, they almost seem to glow when viewed underwater. This bumpy-skinned sea dweller, with an incredibly prominent, spiky spine, is considered by some to be the most beautiful rockfish in the world. “These are one of the most attractive species of rockfish out there,” Tiffany Boothe of Seaside Aquarium told Oregon Coast Beach Connection. “They can vary in color from black or blue-black, mottled with yellow and sometimes white.” The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has identified the China rockfish as a Species of Greatest Conservation Need …