SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - On the sleepy island of Jewfish Key in Sarasota you’ll find a little slice of paradise. A short boat ride reveals a brand-new, custom beach house. It is a four-bedroom ...

Perched on Jewfish Key, a 38-acre island between Longboat Key and Anna Maria Island, this Southern Living Showcase Home is accessible only by boat. The coastal retreat is one of just eight homes on ...

ALTHOUGH on the morning of this trip the greenish waters of Shoal Bay were relatively clean by Darwin standards, visibility was still less than a metre. Luckily, we weren’t relying on sight fishing to ...

The Men’s Over-39 Softball League, more affectionately called the Jewfish League, began play 15 years ago on Friday, Sept. 11, 2009, at DeWitt Roberts Field. The most recent season concluded Friday, ...

Wild inconvenience or boater’s bliss? Either way, the Polynesian-themed island compound located at 7147 La Lenaire Drive on Jewfish Key, accessible only by water, is a stunning beach getaway ...

*The jewfish, socalled, is the hulking; giant of the grouper family. It has little eye set far forward and high up in its head ; a gaping, underslung jaw ; an oblong body. It grows, off tropical ...

Last year a Georgia scientist lobbied successfully to get the name of Florida's largest grouper species changed from jewfish, which he found offensive, to goliath grouper.

The Town of Longboat Key is poised to decide whether Jewfish Key should be allowed to leave the Town’s jurisdiction and become part of unincorporated Manatee County. The Town Commission will debate ...

Jewfish Key residents withdrew a petition to withdraw from the town of Longboat Key. The action May 31 resulted in the cancellation of a June 3 public hearing for the potential deannexation of the key ...

The Jewfish Key Preservation Association’s petition retraction canceled the hearing set for June 3, in which town commissioners would have accepted or denied the de-annexation.

If Jewfish Key separated from Longboat Key, what then? A feasibility study details the challenges that de-annexation of Jewfish Key would present ahead of Town Commission meeting.

Jewfish in big trouble but pros can keep babies Al McGlashan counts the Parramatta River jewie he hooked on bream gear as one of his most satisfying captures. But he let it go. Discover the reason.