Crossword-Solution: JEWFISH
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| Jewfish | n. | A very large serranoid fish (Promicrops itaiara) of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. It often reaches the weight of five hundred pounds. Its color is olivaceous or yellowish, with numerous brown spots. Called also guasa, and warsaw. |
| Jewfish | n. | A similar gigantic fish (Stereolepis gigas) of Southern California, valued as a food fish. |
| Jewfish | n. | The black grouper of Florida and Texas. |
| Jewfish | n. | A large herringlike fish; the tarpum. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “JEWFISH”
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| NEW South Wales river catfish | 1 answer |
| river catfish | 1 answer |
| mulloway | 2 answers |
| NEW South Wales fish | 4 answers |
| AUSTRALIAN fish, large | 4 answers |
| Perchlike fish. | 9 answers |
| catfish | 20 answers |
| marine fish | 43 answers |
| Australian fish | 46 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with JEWFISH (5)
Tunas and tarpon weighing over a hundred pounds are caught with a line that is but little thicker than a grocer’s twine, and even sharks and jewfish weighing over five hundred pounds have been caught in the same way.
Then up comes a great jewfish, which is just as likely to weigh five hundred pounds as fifty, and to be as large as a good-sized Shetland pony, and he makes a lunge for your bait, and-- Well, you can go right on imagining the rest, too." In all, they visited a half-hundred tanks of fish before they were through, watching this group and that group of inmates disporting themselves about in the salty water with apparent unconcern of visitors.
Contemporary Historian Ralph Hamor added his testimony in 1614: For fish, the rivers are plentifully stored with sturgeon, porpoise, bass, rockfish, carp, shad, herring, eel, catfish, perch, flat-fish, trout, sheepshead, drummers, jewfish, crevises, crabs, oysters, and divers other kinds.
The jewfish is common in more southern waters but there may well have been some strays in the Chesapeake.
Favorite targets for the spear fishermen off Padre Island are ling, jewfish, snapper, redfish, trout, flounder, mackerel and sheepshead.