June 2024 Hook, Line, & Storytime: Red Snapper Recreational Management in Texas Lizzie Harris | National Academy of Sciences Fellow, Policy and Education Team Red snapper (Lutjanus campechanus) is economically and culturally significant to the Gulf of Mexico region, with a longstanding history of... Read More
May 2024 Public Enemy #1: Hardhead Catfish Jason Ferguson | Ecosystem Leader, Lower Laguna Madre Field Station You would be hard pressed to come up with a fish species more reviled by recreational anglers on the Texas... Read More
April 2024 Fisheries Management: Casting Nets and Balancing Budgets Jason Jaworski | Port O’Connor Field Station Have you ever wondered about a fisheries manager’s decision-making process? Or how they come to the conclusions they do? There... Read More
March 2024 The Texas Redfish: A Story of Coastal Fisheries Management and Successful Species Recovery Joel Anderson (Facility Manager, Perry R. Bass Research Station) and Shane Bonnot (Advocacy Director at Coastal Conservation Association Texas) The Texas Red Drum, commonly known as Redfish or simply “Red”, has a storied history unique within the annals of... Read More
February 2024 Flat Not Flounder: The Many Species of Flatfish That Live in Texas Bays and How to Tell Them Apart Alyx Bradley | Aransas Bay Ecosystem The sun begins to sink beneath the horizon as you pull up to the boat ramp. You watch as anglers... Read More
January 2024 Goodness Gracious, Great Balls of Baitfish Jessica Geiskopf & Grant Maresh | Galveston Bay Fisheries Management, Dickinson Marine Lab What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Texas’ coastal fisheries? For many anglers, dreams of... Read More
December 2023 Texas’ Commercial Fisheries: Data Collection and Trends Dr. Darin Topping | Commercial Landings Team Leader | Coastal Fisheries Division, Rockport Texas’ bountiful bays, estuaries, and Gulf of Mexico waters have rich and diverse ecosystems that have long supported economically important... Read More
November 2023 Becoming an Outdoors Woman Returns to the Texas Coast Nicole Plowman | Coastal Ecologist, Dickinson Marine Lab “The other way! No, the other way! The other, OTHER way!” If you regularly use a boat ramp, you’ve witnessed... Read More
October 2023 TPWD Coastal Fisheries Stock Enhancement of Spotted Seatrout - Post Freeze Tyler Schacht | Hatchery Team Leader | Perry R. Bass Marine Fisheries Research Station Stock enhancement is a fisheries management tool used around the world to help supplement wild fish populations by introducing hatchery-reared... Read More
September 2023 From Sea to Stream: Tracking the Elusive American Eel as it Slithers from Texas’ Estuaries into its Rivers Joel Anderson (Facility Manager, Perry R. Bass Research Station) and Jillian Swinford (Natural Resource Specialist, Perry R. Bass Research Station) The American Eel (scientific name Anguilla rostrata) is a species of eel that is found throughout the eastern part of... Read More