Swordfish

Xiphias Gladius Linnaeus

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Mediterranean Seafood

By Alan Davidson

Published 1981

About

Family Xiphiidae

REMARKS Maximum length 450 cm. The sword is reputedly used for flailing around among banks of smaller fish, which are thus killed or stunned. The swordfish is found throughout the Mediterranean and in the Black Sea, whither it migrates in the spring, to return in August.

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The Luvar and the Swordfish

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