Texas Parks & Wildlife Field Notes

October 2023

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...

September 2023

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...

The Texas Slam, which includes the combined catch of a Spotted Seatrout, Redfish, and Southern Flounder in a single day,...

One of the main hurdles facing fishery biologists is that the subject of their science occurs under water. For this...

Fisheries management takes more than understanding the biology and ecology of the fish and invertebrates that live in our waters....

Have you ever come back from a fishing trip and been approached by a group of people in khaki uniforms...

Most coastal anglers in Texas know that the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department (TPWD) stocks millions of fingerlings representing a...

Since December 2020, Texas Parks & Wildlife Department (TPWD) and Texas A&M University at Galveston have been engaged in an...

The eastern oyster is a culinary favorite that provides significant economic and cultural benefits to Texas’s coastal residents. As a...

Nighttime anglers searching for Southern Flounder (Paralichthys lethostigma) have at least one thing in common – they don’t mind staying...

TP&W Field Notes