Conservation

Representative Dennis Bonnen Receives CCA Texas Conservation Hero Award

Shane Bonnot | Advocacy Director, CCA Texas
In 1981, the Texas Legislature passed the Redfish Bill, designating redfish and spotted seatrout as “game fish” to provide protection...

CCA Texas 2017 in Review

John Blaha
2017 has been a year of success and also challenges for the Texas coast and CCA Texas members.On the fundraising...

Bird Island Cove Marsh Restoration Grass Planting

John Blaha
CCA Texas and Building Conservation Trust recently contracted Apache Ecological to plant 32,000 plugs of smooth cordgrass in the Bird...

A Flood of New Oyster Regulations

Shane Bonnot
Memorial Day Flood of 2015, Tax Day Flood of 2016 and late-May Floods of 2016. Two consecutive years of historic flooding were...

St. Charles Bay Shoreline Protection and Reef Creation

John Blaha
CCA Texas, Building Conservation Trust, Texas A&M Corpus Christi, and National Fish and Wildlife Foundation recently partnered to create 2,000...

Recreational Angler Idea Becomes Reality – RGV Nearshore Reef

John Blaha
In 2014, brothers Bob and Gary Glick began talking about the fact that the Gulf of Mexico bottom, in particular...

CCA Texas 2017 Summer Happenings

John Blaha
CCA Texas volunteers and staff have had an enormously busy banquet season thus far and are preparing to push through...

A Call for Public Support of TPWD Oyster Harvest Recommendations

Shane Bonnot
This past April, Jason McCartney, an avid kayak angler, was in pursuit of speckled trout and redfish in the estuary...

CCA Texas Happenings

John Blaha
As this article is being written, CCA Texas volunteers and staff have completed twenty-three banquet events; thirteen in April alone....

CCA Texas and Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries Program Help Restore 2,300 Acres of Marsh Habitat on Matagorda Island

John Blaha
CCA Texas and Habitat Today for Fish Tomorrow (HTFT) partnered with Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries Program (CBBEP) to restore...

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