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The author shares her experiences of fishing for jewfish and bream on the Hawkesbury River in Australia. She describes the tradition of storing jewfish in painted tobacco tins and the pride associated with the size of their "jewels." The bream is portrayed as a challenging catch that requires a lot of skill and patience.

The article discusses the Atlantic goliath groupers, a large fish usually found off the coast of Florida. Topics include how they were placed on the endangered species list after commercial and recreational fishermen, climate change, and the destruction of their habitat depleted their population, how scientists Chris Koenig and Felicia Coleman monitor the regrowth of the species, and the debate between conservationists and fishermen over the species' endangered status.

The article discusses the author's experience about an encounter with a goliath grouper which was estimated to be 350 pounds. INSET: Handling Goliath.

Focuses on the giant Jewfishes and Warsaw groupers in the coastal waters of Texas. Records on the largest and heaviest fishes caught; Appeal of the University of Georgia to the Committee on Names of Fishes and the American Fishes Society to change the name of the fishes because of its anti-Semitic notions; Recollection of diver Andre Ronnlund on his horrible fish attack experience; Reason behind the growing number of such big fishes in the Texan coastal waters.

The article discusses activities at the Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF) in Key Largo, Florida as of 2014. Topics include how visitors can participate in a week-long diving survey to help REEF monitor the area for things such as the Epinephelus itajara, or the goliath grouper, the recovery of coral reef systems after ship grounding, and hiking trails at Everglades National Park.

This article presents information about various types of fish. Some fish leave fishermen staring at broken fishing lines, snapped fishing rods, and straightened fishing hooks after they encounter them. Some of these fish are: the mangrove snapper, jack crevalle, flathead catfish, and jewfish. The average mangrove snapper weighs about a pound. They readily hit live bait. Jackfish have blunt faces and a perpetual scowl. They readily bite almost any bait, and are plentiful. Flathead catfish hide in the darkest deadfalls and root caves in a river system.

Recommends several products for the food service industry in Australia. Jewfish from South Australia; Oscietra caviar available at Simon Johnson stores.

Focuses on Goliath grouper, formerly called jewfish and belonged to the western north Atlantic grouper family. Factors that made Goliath grouper extremely vulnerable to both hook-and-line and spear fishing; Remarks from Roy Crabtree, administrator for the National Marine Fisheries Service Southeast Region; Possible option for the increasing growth of Goliath grouper.

Announces that the fish named Jewfish has been changed into Goliath Grouper.

Editorial. Comments on the name change of the jewfish Epinephelus itajara to goliath grouper by the Committee on Names of Fishes of the American Fisheries Society and the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.