Florida Keys Fish
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Florida Keys Fish
Swordfish












Description: color of back variable, black, grayish blue, brown, metallic purple, or bronze;
sides dusky; underbelly dirty white; long flat, sword-like upper jaw; lacks scales, teeth, and
pelvic fins; single keel on each side of body in front of tail; first dorsal fin high, rigid and
short; large eyes

Where found: offshore species worldwide in temperate and tropic waters; known to
frequent depths of 400 to 500 fathoms; also has been seen basking at the surface

Size: once averaged 200 pounds, but overharvest has reduced size of commercially caught
swordfish to average of 48 pounds

Remarks: large swordfish are all females, males seldom exceed 200 pounds; except
when spawning, females believed to prefer water cooler than that favored by males; feeds
on squid, octopus, and pelagic fishes of all kinds
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