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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Sea bass. Zool. (a) A large marine food fish (Serranus atrarius syn. Centropristis atrarius) which abounds on the Atlantic coast of the United States.  It is dark bluish, with black bands, and more or less varied with small white spots and blotches.  Called also, locally, blue bass, black sea bass, blackfish, bluefish, and black perch. (b) A California food fish (Cynoscion nobile); -- called also white sea bass, and sea salmon.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 sea bass
      n 1: the lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae
           [syn: bass]
      2: any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast
         of the United States having an elongated body and long
         spiny dorsal fin