Plecostomus Amongst Us

Mark Lingo | Ecosystem Leader, Lower Laguna Madre | Brownsville
Back in the summer of 2010 the lower Laguna Madre was inundated with freshwater from a combination of three tropical...

Lionfish Stalking Our Bays?

Coastal Fisheries Natural Resource Specialists: Leslie D. Hartman (Palacios, Matagorda Bay) & Zachary T. Olsen (Corpus Christi, upper Laguna Madre)
Invasive species are a growing global concern in the Gulf of Mexico and the lionfish is rapidly on its way...

You, Me, and Debris

Gloria Alcaraz | CCA Intern - Lower Laguna Madre | Brownsville
Take a moment and imagine that you are on a fishing trip with your family. As you are scouting the...

Harvest Monitoring and Estimation of Landings

Zaida Faye Hagar | CCA/TPWD Summer Intern | Aransas Bay Ecosystem | Rockport
In 2011, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) Coastal Fisheries Division estimated that more than 51,000 spotted seatrout and...

No Boat, No Problem…Go Fish

Tom Wagner and Ed Hegen | Rockport Marine Lab
Why do people fish? Because they can. Where do people fish? Anywhere they can. For almost forty years Texas Parks...