A 63-year-old woman recently felt unwell after consuming Hybrid Grouper. She developed symptoms that include abdominal pain, diarrhea, numbness of the limbs, nausea, and vomiting. It turned out that the fish contained ciguatoxins. Since ciguatoxins are very heat-resistant and cannot be removed through cooking or processing, eating fish with ciguatoxins can affect both nerve and…

While wetting his line in the Red Sea this past summer, one Hungarian angler managed to reel in a world record-sized roving coral grouper—a spectacular red-orange specimen dappled with blue spots. After being submitted and confirmed by the International Game Fishing Association (IGFA) last fall, the enormous fish shattered the previous world record which had…