Texas Fauna Project

Atlantic Tarpon

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David Sikes served as the outdoor columnist for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times for over two decades. Here he discusses the factors behind the decline of the Atlantic tarpon along the Texas coast, speculating that the damming of the state's rivers led to cutbacks in nutrient inflows and bait fish numbers in Texas' coastal bays, in turn hurting tarpon populations.