There’s Jewfish Point in Los Angeles, Jewfish Creek in the Florida Keys, not to mention the well-known Jewfish Creek Bridge, a gateway to Key Largo.

The 'jewfish' has been renamed, and now a federal panel has been asked to do the same for a Florida creek that borrowed the epithet. Fish Lends Its Name, Name Gives Offense - Los Angeles Times ...

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 ...

They spearfished on a wreck where jewfish spawn.“They boated 30 of them but didn’t properly ice them,” said DeMaria, a commercial spearfisherman. “A lot of the fish ...

A less flattering theory is that in the 1800s, jewfish were declared inferior and only fit for Jews. The Maryland-based American Fisheries Society received complaints about the name for decades.

*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.

MIAMI, May 24 -- A committee with the power to name fish has decided to change the name of jewfish, once a favorite quarry of south Florida fishermen, to Goliath grouper.

Jewfish is flat-shaped, have brown skin and wide eyes, also have a black dot on the side of his body. We all know the benefits of eating fish. But Jewfish (Ghol fish) is a delicacy. This fish is ...