| Freshwater Drum also known as sheephead, grinder, croaker, and gaspergou are widely distributed across the Central United States, South Central Canada, and Eastern Mexico. |
| Large sheephead, halibut, and white seabass are all well-represented in the waters off California and make for fantastic eating. |
| California sheephead are often grilled and are much sought after by spear fishermen and the immigrant Chinese population, in which case it is basket steamed. |
| Rough fish comprise the American eel, black sucker, dogfish, gar, lamprey eel, redhorse, sheephead, and white sucker. |
| Sea urchins are some of the favorite foods of sea otters and California sheephead, and are the main source of nutrition for wolf eels. |
| They have hard shells that whiting and croakers can't crack, while the sheephead, having good teeth, crush them easily. |
