Education
Coastal Habitats
Animals of the Gulf Waters
Striped bass
Morone saxatilis
Striped bass can live in salt or fresh water. These fish spend most of their adult lives in the Gulf but run up rivers in early spring to spawn.
Rare off the Texas coast, striped bass have been introduced into many rivers and reservoirs around the state where they seem to be doing fine despite the lack of salt water.
Animals of the Gulf Waters
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Barred grunt
Great barracuda
Greater amberjack
Cobia
Permit
Lesser electric ray
Bighead sea robin
Bay whiff
Sand seatrout
Striped bass
Silver seatrout
Atlantic cutlassfish
Yellowtail snapper
Lane snapper
Rock hind
Red snapper
Tarpon
Atlantic spadefish
Vermilion snapper
Bluefish
Scamp
Dolphin fish
Tripletail
Snook
Great hammerhead
Bull shark
Lemon shark
Blacktip shark
Atlantic stingray
Cownose ray
Yellowfin tuna
Atlantic bonito
Jewfish
