TP&W Field Notes

The USTS Texas Clipper: A New Artificial Reef in the Gulf of Mexico

J. Dale Shively | Coordinator | Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Artificial Reef Program
What can you do with a historically significant, obsolete, steel-hulled ship that is 473 feet long, weighs about 7,000 tons...

Environmental Flows Protection Legislation Becomes Law

Cindy Loeffler | Director Water Resources Branch | Coastal Fisheries Division
When the 80th Legislature finally adjourned at midnight on May 28, 2007, Senate Bill 3 had passed. Governor Perry signed...

New and Improved Strategies Used to Increase the Survival Rates of Hatchery-reared Fishes Released Into the Wild

Robert Vega, Ph.D.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) managers use the practice of "stock enhancement" as one of the tools to supplement...

Visiting the Arroyo Colorado

Mark Lingo | Lower Laguna Madre Ecosystem Leader
The Arroyo Colorado has been used by generations of anglers, boaters, and swimmers and remains a popular destination for visitors...

Bait Use 101

Art Morris | Outreach Specialist | Corpus Christi Field Station
I would never have guessed that the fish that took my topwater while fishing the rocks off the Kenedy Ranch...

Technology for Fisheries Management

Josh Harper | Matagorda Bay Fishery Biologist
In high school, I hated math and utterly despised computers. In fact, the only class I ever came close to...

Spotted Seatrout in the Lower Laguna Madre

Dr. Larry McKinney | Director Coastal Fisheries, TPWD
A Regional Approach to Restoring a World Class FisheryPart II Management Issues The biological basis for developing a regionally based...

Spotted Seatrout in the Lower Laguna Madre: A Regional Approach to Restoring a World Class Fishery

Dr. Larry McKinney | Director Coastal Fisheries, TPWD
The spotted seatrout (SST) fishery of the Lower Laguna Madre (LLM) sustained by miles of remote and relatively untroubled seagrass...

Evolution of Fisheries Management - An example in Texas

Rebecca Hensley | Galveston Bay Ecosystem Leader
Many people once believed that fisheries resources were unlimited and couldn't be impacted by commercial or recreational harvest. As recreational...

All In The Family

Norman Boyd
1) spotted seatrout and red drum,2) no preference,3) spotted seatrout,4) red drum,5) spotted seatrout, red drum and flounder,No, that's not...

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