Talk:Tarpon

Why don't they have food value? What does that mean?
It's an interesting sentence in the article, but needs to be expanded upon. Why no food value? Does it taste bad? What does it it taste like? Shoe leather? Mud? Or is it full of millions of tiny bones? Or is it gristly?

This is the stuff that good article writing is made of, plus it's a key relevant fact. So more detail is needed.

69.171.160.241 (talk) 16:19, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

edits
Moved fishing info. to species article, also fishing links have lapsed so please put new ones in if there are any good ones.HappyVR 16:18, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Removed "They are also known to eat humans.". Don't know a lot about fish, but this seems extremely unlikely. It had a reference, but that did not support the claim at all. Smocking (talk) 17:34, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Edited "They fall prey to sharks, porpoise, alligators, and birds" because once they are mature there is few creatures that can touch them due to there size except for very large sharks, and even then it is primarily due to anglers altering their behavior. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.79.28.73 (talk) 19:02, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Film
What about the film Tarpon --85.220.25.98 (talk) 20:40, 15 June 2008 (UTC) more information —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.184.152.2 (talk) 19:42, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Atlantic tarpon size & Indo-Pacific tarpon size
The Physical characteristics section notes that "Tarpons grow to about 4–8 ft long and weigh 60–280 lbs" this implies all Tarpons grow to this size but this isn't the case for Indo-Pacific Tarpon, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Pacific_tarpon#Description - "Those living in fresh water tend to be smaller than the ones living in saltwater, growing just over 50 cm (20 in), while saltwater examples grow over 1 m (3.3 ft)" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.165.143.75 (talk) 17:06, 6 June 2018 (UTC)