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There are 34 species of sharks that inhabit Texas coastal waters. This is the conclusion of Dr. Donald Wohlschlag, who has been keeping count as he leafs through a zoological key to local marine life. Through his window I can see past the Port Aransas dunes out to the Gulf a gray Gulf today, all its denizens securely tucked in. Wohlschlag is an ichthyologist and ecologist here at the University of Texas’ Institute of Marine Science, an idyllic laboratory/learning complex peopled mostly by tanned and bearded graduate students. Wohlschlag himself is a rotund man with small eyes that crinkle up gleefully whenever the talk turns from fish to human folly. Sharks are really a little out of his line he’s busy right now constructing a tank to monitor the metab­olisms of pinfish and mullet but he is ready to share both his literature and his opinions on the subject,

Corpus christiUnited statesPort aransasPadre islandPort isabelBroderick crawfordBob hallPaul dirkDonald wohlschlagCarolyn dirkHieronymus boschMarlon brandoPeter benchleyErnest hemingwayHorace caldwellUniversity of texa institute marine science