It’s a “bass grouper”. Different species from the goliath, not found in US waters.
Snagging season starts March 15th here at Lake of the Ozarks.
Some pretty big spoonbill are hauled in every spring...
Not a jewfish, for sure. It is a Polyprion americanus, known to us as the “Wreckfish”. Worldwide distribution, generally in the deep of the continental shelves.
http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/43972/0
I used to participate in the Wreckfish fishery on the Blake Plateau off of our Southeast coast.