Jewfish can be caught in rivers, creeks, bays and on reef systems using both lures and baits. Like most reef fish species, black jewfish spawn during the wet season with spawning events peaking in ...

There is a marine species now "more lucrative than abalone" and Queensland's commercial catch has skyrocketed in the past 18 months, prompting authorities to tighten regulations and increase penalties ...

A boom in the value of black jewfish swim bladders has Top End fishing authorities worried prices could fuel a black market in Asia. The swim bladder is an organ in the fish which regulates its ...

FORT MYERS -- The committee responsible for naming fish in the Americas has changed the common name of Florida's largest grouper species from jewfish, which some found offensive, to goliath grouper.

In May 2000, the American Fisheries Society officially changed the name jewfish to Goliath Grouper. Other names include spotted jewfish, southern jewfish, esonue, Florida jewfish Description This is ...

Black jewfish is now off limits to commercial fishers until next year after the catch limit for the species in Queensland’s East Coast waters was reached. The 20-tonne limit for east coast black ...

Why does putting the word “Jew” in front of any object make it sound a little anti-Semitic? There are several theories for how the jewfish (Promicrops itaiara), an Atlantic saltwater grouper with fins ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Sunshine Coast. Followed categories will be added to My News. With big fish to 1.2m not unusual to be caught on our coastline, the reality is that hooking an 80cm ...

KEY LARGO, Fla. — Nothing predisposes Epinephelus itajara to be a troublemaker. A voracious grouper that can grow to more than 6 feet, the lurking bottom-feeder is sluggish enough that countless ...

Few names, words or ideas are so incendiary as those associated with specific ethnic or religious groups. Chief Illiniwek may be only a University of Illinois mascot, but there are reasons why his ...