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...spear unwary fish that hover near the surface. Experts like Miami's great Pinder brothers. Art, Fred and Don (see SHOW BUSINESS ), can easily go as deep as 70 ft., stay under for up to 60 sec., and have individually landed catches as big as an 804-lb. jewfish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Poet of the Depths | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

...Tampa, Fla., Kimoto Toono, Japanese sailor, went ashore from his ship to spear small fish. So as not to lose his gig (spear), he fastened the end of the rope around his body. Then he sighted a 340-lb. jewfish, speared it, was pulled off the dock, out to sea, drowned. Next day searchers found Gigger Toono and his jewfish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Gigger | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

...Coral Gables when his train stops there for an hour Saturday. But the President's attention is likely to be occupied not by realty but by the Flagler genius when, reaching Everglade station south of Miami, the train starts out on a long point to a station called Jewfish. There the railway crosses an inlet to Key Largo and begins a unique run, 100 shimmering miles southwest into the Gulf of Mexico, to "America's Gibraltar," "the only frost-free city in the U. S.," the southernmost U. S. port and by 300 miles the nearest U. S. city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: To Cuba | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

Last week, Manhattan Jews gazed resentfully at the groupers in the New York aquarium, and at the placard on the grouper tank. The Christian Century good news had not yet come true. The placard still reads "JEWFISH (Grouper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Jewfish Out? | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

...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 America and along the California coast, to a length of six feet, in the Pacific south seas to twelve feet. Although sluggish, it is a favorite of sea fishermen, for its mighty-seeming on the hook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Jewfish Out? | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

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