When people think redfish they usually think of a large brownish fish in the drum family. When people think rockfish they think the west coast where the species diversity of them is greatest. But the east coast of North America has three species of rockfish (and another is found in Europe making the north Atlantic have a total of four species). The ones in the northeast of North America are the Acadian Redfish, Rose Fish, and Deepwater Redfish/ I am not sure which this is (people called it both a rosy, and a redfish, so rose fish could be a possibility).
This fish did not fare well. He was pulled up too fast and suffered from decompression sickness (or whatever fish bends are called), causing his eyes to bulge, and him to float on the surface on release. It does make me wonder though. If you can reel up a redfish slowly enough for it to repressurize can it make a good aquarium fish?
The other oddity looks like a flattened muppet in this image, but it is a longhorn sculpin. The most common sculpin in the gulf of maine. A fish that eats a wide variety of living creatures (I read a list of their diet, it was long). And like other sculpins it changes colors to match its environment/
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