|
|
Fishing News Headlines
5/23/2001
‘Jewfish’ out, ‘goliath’ is in - Group puts new tag on giant grouper in name of correctness
By KEVIN LOLLAR, [email protected]
Some people might not think it’s kosher, but the committee that names fish in the Americas changed the common name of Florida’s largest grouper species.
From now on, the Committee of Names of Fishes of the American Fisheries Society wants people to call jewfish “goliath grouper.”
Chutzpah or ethnic sensitivity?
“This was not a quick or easy decision,” committee Chairman Joseph Nelson said from his home in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. “For several decades, this committee has been petitioned by people who felt the name was offensive to Jews. But our overriding principle has always been one of stability of names, and we’ve resisted, politely saying, ‘No.’
“But we recently had a strong, strong petition stating that this name to some Jews was deeply offensive. One of our principles in the naming of fish is the name should not be offensive, so we discussed it a long time and felt, OK, if name is offensive to a group, it’s OK to change it.”
Click Here for Full Story
|
|
|
Displaying 1 thru 10 out of 53 total
salt water tounaments.
|
>
|
>>
|
|
|
|
Next
|
Last
|
|
|
