February 2024 Flat Not Flounder: The Many Species of Flatfish That Live in Texas Bays and How to Tell Them Apart Alyx Bradley | Aransas Bay Ecosystem The sun begins to sink beneath the horizon as you pull up to the boat ramp. You watch as anglers... Read More
January 2024 Goodness Gracious, Great Balls of Baitfish Jessica Geiskopf & Grant Maresh | Galveston Bay Fisheries Management, Dickinson Marine Lab What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Texas’ coastal fisheries? For many anglers, dreams of... Read More
December 2023 Texas’ Commercial Fisheries: Data Collection and Trends Dr. Darin Topping | Commercial Landings Team Leader | Coastal Fisheries Division, Rockport Texas’ bountiful bays, estuaries, and Gulf of Mexico waters have rich and diverse ecosystems that have long supported economically important... Read More
November 2023 Becoming an Outdoors Woman Returns to the Texas Coast Nicole Plowman | Coastal Ecologist, Dickinson Marine Lab “The other way! No, the other way! The other, OTHER way!” If you regularly use a boat ramp, you’ve witnessed... Read More
October 2023 TPWD Coastal Fisheries Stock Enhancement of Spotted Seatrout - Post Freeze Tyler Schacht | Hatchery Team Leader | Perry R. Bass Marine Fisheries Research Station Stock enhancement is a fisheries management tool used around the world to help supplement wild fish populations by introducing hatchery-reared... Read More
September 2023 From Sea to Stream: Tracking the Elusive American Eel as it Slithers from Texas’ Estuaries into its Rivers Joel Anderson (Facility Manager, Perry R. Bass Research Station) and Jillian Swinford (Natural Resource Specialist, Perry R. Bass Research Station) The American Eel (scientific name Anguilla rostrata) is a species of eel that is found throughout the eastern part of... Read More
August 2023 The rise of tropical fish and fish diversity in Texas Lily Walker, Fish and Wildlife Technician, TPWD Upper Laguna Madre Ecosystem Team The Texas Slam, which includes the combined catch of a Spotted Seatrout, Redfish, and Southern Flounder in a single day,... Read More
July 2023 Age and Growth of Coastal Spotted Seatrout in Texas Joel Anderson, Facility Manager, Perry R. Bass Research Station One of the main hurdles facing fishery biologists is that the subject of their science occurs under water. For this... Read More
June 2023 The Modern Angler—Understanding the demographics, behaviors, and motivations of the men and women who fish the Texas coast Zachary Olsen | Aransas Bay Ecosystem Fisheries management takes more than understanding the biology and ecology of the fish and invertebrates that live in our waters.... Read More
May 2023 The Trials and Tribulations of Trout Management Vivienette Perez Have you ever come back from a fishing trip and been approached by a group of people in khaki uniforms... Read More