TP&W Field Notes

TPWD’s Response to Coastwide Freeze, 2010

Steven Mitchell, Aquatic Biologist | Upper Coast Kills and Spills Team | Dickinson Marine Laboratory
Prior to the 1950s, biologists along the Texas coast were few and far between and getting to a fish kill...

Change in Seagrass Bed Scarring (2007-2009) Using GIS

Faye Grubbs*, Ashley Summers, Mark Fisher (Texas Parks and Wildlife Department)
INTRODUCTION In the 1990s, it was recognized that propeller scars left by boaters were causing significant damage to seagrass beds...

Mapping a New Path

Jennifer Bauer | Fish and Wildlife Technician, Dickinson Marine Laboratory | Oyster Mapping and Restoration Project, Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
When most people think of a job as a fisheries technician, they generally think that means working with fish. When...

The Often Overlooked Florida Pompano

Todd Neahr | Natural Resource Specialist | Upper Laguna Madre Ecosystem | Corpus Christi
Have you ever thought of breaking away from the same old fishing trip? Do you want to target something different...

Maybe It’s Time We Try Something Different for Supper

Mark Lingo | Lower Laguna Madre Ecosystem Leader | Brownsville Field Station | Brownsville
Over the years I have tried foods that most folks would find down right disgusting, including opossum, nutria, lynx, and...

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Kevin Willis | Matagorda Bay Ecosystem | Fish and Wildlife Technician | Palacios
As a young man, I spent a half-decade paddling the backwaters and oxbows of southeast Texas' Neches River. In search...

Know Your Sharks

Tonya Wiley | TPWD Fisheries Outreach Specialist | Dickinson
When you reel in your next shark, make sure you've got a keeper. New regulations took effect in September, so...

The Rocks of Baffin Bay

Amy Larimer | Upper Laguna Madre Ecosystem | Fish and Wildlife Technician | Corpus Christi
Any angler familiar with the Baffin Bay area knows how dangerous and expensive encounters with the area's rocks and reefs...

New Guy on the Block

Nicholas Ahrens | Fish and Wildlife Technician | Rockport Texas
I pushed the alarm button off on the clock. 5:30 am. I had not slept much. Mostly out of anticipation...

Texas’ Marine Fish Stocking Program

Robert Vega | Ph.D. Marine Hatcheries Program Leader
Texas' 2009 marine fish stocking program has successfully started with captive hatchery red drum and spotted seatrout spawning millions of...

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