 Common forage fishes found in Puget Sound include Pacific herring ("Clupea pallasii"), surf smelt ("Hypomesus pretiosus"), and Pacific sand lance ("Ammodytes hexapterus").Important benthopelagic fish of Puget Sound include North Pacific hake ("Merluccius productus"), Pacific cod ("Gadus macrocelhalus"), walleye pollock ("Theragra chalcogramma"), and the spiny dogfish ("Squalus acanthias").There are about 28 species of Sebastidae (rockfish), of many types, found in Puget Sound.