Texas Parks & Wildlife Field Notes

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

If you often fish the Texas coastal waters, you have probably ended a fishing trip at a boat ramp to...

Since 2002 the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission has mandated a closed crab trap season in Texas' coastal waters for...

Cruising through the Texas estuaries, most anglers have heard the splash of a fish jumping out of the water or...

The Texas Clipper lived several lives, beginning with its christening as the USS Queens on September 12, 1944, a WWII...

Seafood consumption advisories for marine waters are not new to Texas. Beginning in the late 1980's consumption advisories have been...

Three species of the genus Cynoscion, commonly called seatrout, are native to the Gulf of Mexico: the spotted seatrout, the...

Part I (June 2008 Issue) of this series gave the basics of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's (TPWD) "No propeller...

If you’re boating in redfish bay this summer, be sure to watch out for divers! Biologists from the Texas Parks...

Does it seem to you that there are more and more boats on the bays and in front of you...

TP&W Field Notes