How to Measure Fish

Lee Schoech
Throughout the summer, as an intern for Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) Coastal Fisheries Division, I learned many biological...

Fisheries in Berlin

Ed Hegen
Dateline: Berlin, Germany, August 2011. Germans and Berliners are remembering the 50-year anniversary of the erection of the wall that...

What’s In a Fish Name?

Josh Harper | Natural Resource Specialist | Palacios Field Station | Palacios, Texas
So a Texan, a Cajun, and a Mexican go fishing together, and pretty soon the Texan catches a large croaking...

Seeing Red?

Noemi Matos | TPWD – Coastal Fisheries | Resource Specialist Brownsville Field Station | Brownsville, TX
Red tide was likely first documented by the Spaniards in 1530. Spanish explorer Nunez De Vaca recorded stories by Florida...

Gill Net Wrangler

Jenny Detert | TPWD Coastal Fisheries Division | Summer Intern | Palacios, Texas
First day of my internship, up at the crack of dawn, I am awed by the sun's rays rising from...

What Diversity We Have

James Sanchez, Summer Intern, Aransas Bay Ecosystem, Rockport
Picture a beautiful morning along a shoreline in Aransas Bay. You get out of your boat for the days first...

Fish and Wildlife Technician

Luis Uballe, Jr. - Fish and Wildlife Technician - Aransas Bay Ecosystem Team
There is many a time that someone asks me, What do you do for a living? If I were to...

South Bay Seagrasses

William E. Thompson, Natural Resource Specialist, and Mark Lingo, Ecosystem Leader, Brownsville
Does the following scenario sound familiar to you? It is one of those picture perfect days. The sun is just...