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Jewfish Point
Jewfish Point is a headland at the far southern end of Santa Catalina Island, California, Santa Catalina Island in Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles County, in the U.S. state of California. The point was named for a type of grouper, formerly known as the ''jewfish'', that is prized for its taste. The fish has been renamed due to the old name's offensive nature but the old name persists in several toponyms. The waters around the point were believed to yield "record-breaking black sea bass" for fishermen. This slow-growing fish now commonly called ''giant sea bass (''binomial name ''Stereolepis gigas)'' is listed as a Critically Endangered, critically endangered species on the IUCN Red List''.'' The point is used as a landmark for defining marine areas near the island, such as a commercial fishing restriction in the 1960s. It is currently one of the boundaries of the Binnacle Rock to Jewfish Point Area of Special Biological Significance, defined as the of coastline bet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Santa Catalina Jewish, Or Black Sea-Bass
A, or a, is the first Letter (alphabet), letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is English alphabet#Letter names, ''a'' (pronounced ), plural English alphabet#Letter names, ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Greek alphabet#History, Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The Letter case, uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, "English articles, a", and its variant "English articles#Indefinite article, an", are Article (grammar)#Indefinite article, indefinite arti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
