Texas Parks & Wildlife Field Notes

May 2024

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...

April 2024

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...

March 2024

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...

The sun begins to sink beneath the horizon as you pull up to the boat ramp. You watch as anglers...

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Texas’ coastal fisheries? For many anglers, dreams of...

Texas’ bountiful bays, estuaries, and Gulf of Mexico waters have rich and diverse ecosystems that have long supported economically important...

“The other way! No, the other way! The other, OTHER way!” If you regularly use a boat ramp, you’ve witnessed...

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,...

TP&W Field Notes