August 2019 Artificial Reefs and Red Snapper – Closer than your local grocery store! J. Brooke Shipley | Ph.D. Chief Scientist, TPWD Artificial Reefs Program Just over 10 road miles, or nine nautical miles (NM), is all it takes for a Texas angler to access... Read More
July 2019 iSnapper: How Texas Anglers are Getting Involved Tara Topping, M.S. and Greg Stunz, Ph.D. The 2019 federal red snapper season began June 1 and runs 97 days for private recreational anglers, and we hope... Read More
June 2019 Looking Out For Shrimp: The TPWD Disease Monitoring Program Jillian Swinford | Natural Resource Specialist, Perry R. Bass Research Station Shrimp: the prize of the Gulf Coast. It’s one of the most commercially lucrative fisheries in the United States and... Read More
May 2019 Concerns of Shrimp Virus Across Texas Gulf Coast Robert Adami, Jr. | Natural Resource Specialist, Shrimp Farm Inspection Program Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) biologists have reported that imported frozen shrimp can carry viruses and other diseases that... Read More
April 2019 No Fun for the Cold Stun: Sea Turtle Rescues Liana Lerma It was the first day back at work after the holiday break in January 2018. We all knew it wasn’t... Read More
March 2019 Oysters in Texas Coastal Waters Lance Robinson | Deputy Division Director, Austin There are a wide variety of mollusk species found in Texas estuarine waters. Most of these species occur as single... Read More
March 2019 What’s That Smell? Aaron Adams and Heather Biggs | Ecosystem Resources Program Team, Dickinson Marine Lab Are fish kills on the rise in Galveston Bay? The Upper Texas Coast has had its fair share of fish... Read More
February 2019 Going Vertical for Red Snapper Dr. Darin Topping | Commercial Landings Team Leader, Coastal Fisheries Division, Rockport Honestly, it’s hard to drop a hook down on any of the natural or artificial reef habitats in the Gulf... Read More
January 2019 Sheepshead Biology and Management in Texas Mike Stahl | Biologist, Dickinson Marine Lab Sheepshead, also known as convict fish because of the dark stripes on their sides, are a moderately sought after or... Read More
December 2018 A “Wild” Approach to Stock Enhancement Tyler Schacht | Natural Resource Specialist, Perry R. Bass Marine Fisheries Research Center Stock enhancement is a fisheries management tool used to help supplement wild fish populations by introducing hatchery-reared fish into the... Read More