TP&W Field Notes

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...

Sawfish: Texas’ Lost Species

Tonya Wiley | Outreach Specialist | Dickinson Marine Lab
Their odd appearance and awesome size made them a prized catch for fishermen along the Texas coast. Net fishermen considered...

Where did all these folks come from?

Joshua Harper | Natural Resource Specialist | Palacios Field Station | Palacios
Fishing pressure on the Texas CoastEverybody knows the feeling. You spend all week looking forward to the big weekend fishing...

Seagrasses: A Cornerstone to Bay Productivity

TPWD
Seagrass Requirements Seagrasses, or submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV), are flowering plants that live in shallow saline waters usually in a...

Harvest Surveys

Justin Esslinger | Fish & Wildlife Technician, Coastal Fisheries Division | Rockport Marine Laboratory
If you often fish the Texas coastal waters, you have probably ended a fishing trip at a boat ramp to...

Crab Traps Anyone?

Tom Wagner | Natural Resource Specialist, Rockport
Since 2002 the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission has mandated a closed crab trap season in Texas' coastal waters for...

Sweet Mullet

Sarah Kahlich | Fish and Wildlife Technician | Palacios Field Station
Cruising through the Texas estuaries, most anglers have heard the splash of a fish jumping out of the water or...

Texas Clipper Ship Artificial Reef Project

J. Dale Shively | Artificial Reef Coordinator
The Texas Clipper lived several lives, beginning with its christening as the USS Queens on September 12, 1944, a WWII...

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