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ISSUE 100, FISH & FINE DINING, Part 3: Bluefish

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David S. Shields
Aug 21, 2025
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Bluefish

Which fish is cruelest in the wild. Which species deals death upon its fellows with uninhibited ferocity? The old New Englanders knew. Those that lived on or by the sea had witnessed the bluefish terrorize a shoal of menhaden, or feast upon younger of their kind. A bluefish “was more brutal than a barracuda.” The level of insight contained in th…

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