September 2013 Employee Profile: Mike Ray | Coastal Fisheries Deputy Division Director Ed Hegen | Lower Coast Regional Director | Rockport "I got to Texas as soon as I could." I never actually heard Mike Ray say this, but I think... Read More
August 2013 Harvest Monitoring and Estimation of Landings Zaida Faye Hagar | CCA/TPWD Summer Intern | Aransas Bay Ecosystem | Rockport In 2011, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) Coastal Fisheries Division estimated that more than 51,000 spotted seatrout and... Read More
July 2013 Water Spinach - Does it Pose a Threat to Texas Waterways? Robert Adami, Jr. | Natural Resources Specialist V | Corpus Christi Water Spinach (Ipomoea aquatic) is a popular green vegetable enjoyed by the Texas Asian American community. The plant is native... Read More
June 2013 Brown Tide in Baffin Bay: A look at what we have learned and what the future may hold Zachary Olsen | Upper Laguna Madre Ecosystem Biologist | Corpus Christi In the early 1990s the Baffin Bay area of the Laguna Madre was plagued by what turned out to be... Read More
May 2013 No Boat, No Problem…Go Fish Tom Wagner and Ed Hegen | Rockport Marine Lab Why do people fish? Because they can. Where do people fish? Anywhere they can. For almost forty years Texas Parks... Read More
April 2013 Migration, Gene Flow, and Marine Fishery Management Joel Anderson, TPWD Perry R. Bass Marine Fisheries Research Station In fishing, as in life, there are few indisputable facts. However, you don't have to be a seasoned angler to... Read More
March 2013 Aging Red Snapper Nicole Carrillo Red snapper, Lutjanus campechanus, is a popular game fish and delectable table fare sought after by commercial and recreational fishermen... Read More
February 2013 Future for Fisheries Nicole F. Poulson As a recent graduate from Texas A&M University Corpus Christi (TAMU-CC) I was fortunate to have been selected to intern... Read More
January 2013 Data from of Harvest Surveys Along the Texas Gulf Coast Mike Birchfield | Coastal Fisheries Summer Intern If youre one of the lucky people in Texas who frequently fish our coastal waters and launch your vessel at... Read More
December 2012 Sabine: The Salinity Medley Sara Douga The Sabine Lake ecosystem, located in southeast Texas, is quite unique on the Texas coast due to the existence of... Read More