Texas Fish & Game

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January 17, 2023

TPWD Closes Oyster Harvest In Part of Galveston Bay

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) is closing TX-1 in Galveston Bay to commercial and recreational oyster harvest beginning at 12:01 a.m. Jan. 17, 2023.  This area was previously closed on Jan. 7 by the […]
December 14, 2021

TPWD Closing Oyster Harvest In Galveston, Matagorda, San Antonio Bays

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) is closing TX-1, TX-5 and TX-7 in Galveston Bay and TX-24 in Espiritu Santo Bay to commercial and recreational oyster harvest beginning at 12:01 a.m. Monday, Dec. 13, 2021. […]
December 2, 2020

Nature Conservancy Buying Oysters

The Nature Conservancy today announced it will help struggling oyster farmers impacted by COVID-19 and the economic downturn by purchasing 5 million surplus oysters and using them in nearby oyster restoration projects. The initiative is done […]
July 31, 2017

CCA issues call to action on oysters

Officials with the Coastal Conservation Association (CCA) have issued a call to action for their membership and other Texas coastal anglers. Since 2008 the public oyster reefs in Texas have been continuously overfished by the commercial […]
October 11, 2016

Round Two on the Galveston Oyster Battle

You can bet there will be an appeal Many Galveston Bay fishermen are relieved after State District Judge, Lonnie Cox, voided a controversial lease that privatized 23,000 acres of the Galveston Bay. Sustainable Texas Oyster Resource […]