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A large grouper native to the tropical Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. The earliest source we know of for the name of the species is from the Oxford English Dictionary, which quotes from a book published in 1697, entitled 'A New Voyage Round the World,' by the famed explorer, William Dampier. In the book, Dampier logs his expedition to Jamaica, where he encounters Jews (who are an extreme minority, as they are in most other nations), who favor a certain type of [fish] - the jewfish - which they consider to be the grandest kosher [fish]. Kosher, because it has both fins and scales, and the grandest, because it is by [far] the largest kosher [fish] around, as it is in the Florida's Keys (second to only the shark, when including all fishes). The quote from the OED is: "The [Jew]-[fish] is a very good [Fish], and I judge so called by the English, because it hath Scales and Fins, therefore a clean [Fish], according to the Levitical Law."
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