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ANGLER'S GUIDE TO FISHES OF THE GULF OF MEXICO!
This book is a given for recreational and commercial fishermen as well as anyone who loves the outdoors! Since most anglers identify their fish by reviewing illustrations rather than using scientific keys, the authors have succeeded in making fishing easier by providing superb illustrations and detailed diagnostics for fish identification. A valuable, one-stop reference tool for everyday anglers, fisheries experts, biologists, and outdoors writers, this guide includes intensively researched information on 207 species of saltwater fish, essential data on each species’ habitat, identification, typical size, and food value. By Jerald Horst & Mike Lane, illustrated by Duane Raver. 207 species. |
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| Other Names : | Silver King, Grande Ecaille, Tarpon | | Range & Habitat : | Gulfwide, bays, estuaries and beaches, often penetrating into coastal rivers. Tarpon can tolerate oxygen-poor conditions, being able to take air from the atmosphere with their lung-like bladder. | | Identification & Biology : | Tarpon are bright silver with a green or gray back. They have large underslung, scoop-shaped mouths. They are toothless. The last ray of the dorsal fin is elongated. Tarpon spawn in open waters between May through September, producing transparent eel-like leptocephali larvae. Tarpon grow rapidly, reach 12 inches in one year and 20 inches by age two. Tarpon seem to prefer to prey on schooling, silver-colored fishes such as sardines, anchovies, silversides, and mullet, but will also take crabs. Hooked tarpon are spectacular jumpers. | | Size : | Tarpon will reach well over 200 pounds, although fish 75-125 pounds are most common. | | Food Value : | None, although they are consumed in other countries. | | Description by: Jerald Horst, Associate Professor, Fisheries - LSU AgCenter |
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