yellow eye

Multiple species of rockfish, slow-growing creatures with spiny fins and colorful names like canary, darksplotched and yellow eye, were the hardest hit.

The sun was a yellow eye scorched in a blanket of blue.

This was a brown thrasher, he told me, describing its attributes with a mix of precision and fondness — “rufous brown, speckled on the breast, yellow eye, curved beak, long tail.”

The National Marine Fisheries Service says catch limits for yellow eye rockfish will more than double, and limits will also increase substantially for the California scorpionfish, bocaccio and Pacific Ocean perch.

It’s no accident that the expansion is launching so close to Halloween: among the new creatures are a number of horrifying sea monsters, including what looks like a massive angler fish and a giant yellow eye that lives on the seafloor.