The Coastal Fisheries Division of Texas Parks and Wildlife (TPWD), with assistance from the Law Enforcement Division, continues to assess the fish kills along the Texas coast due to the recent winter weather. Freezing events along the Texas Coast are […]
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Recognizing the extraordinary impact of the recent winter storm, the CCA Texas 2021 S.T.A.R. Tournament will feature a significantly revised format. The speckled trout, flounder, sheepshead and gafftop divisions have been removed entirely from this year’s tournament. The 2021 STAR
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Texas Fish & Game Editor-In-Chief Chester Moore and Texas Fish & Game won big at the Texas Outdoor Writer’s Association (TOWA) awards in Port Arthur last weekend. Moore received 10 total awards and five first place honors including the following:
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–The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina ruled in a case brought by the Southern Environmental Law Center that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service must develop a plan by March 1, 2021, to resume its longstanding
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An environmental body established under the NAFTA replacement, the newly negotiated United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, concluded that the deaths of hundreds of loggerhead sea turtles in Mexico due to fishing gear entanglement warrant a formal response from Mexico and further review under
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The use of warfarin, a type of poison commonly used to kill rats was brought up in 2017 for feral hog population control with the introduction and eventual demise of the “Kaput Feral Hog Lure”. A firestorm of controversy over
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Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA-14) has introduced the Second Amendment Preservation Act (SAPA) to defund all federal gun control enforcement and end funding for regulation and guidance issued by the ATF. The Second Amendment Preservation Act (SAPA) will: Cut
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USGS researchers are studying the growth and success of nursery-grown transplanted corals in the Florida Keys; research that might help this population of the threatened species rebound. Reefs there have experienced significant coral loss in recent decades from coral bleaching,
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Texas experienced a rapid drop in temperatures which put more than 4900 Sea Turtles on South Padre Island in jeopardy. Responding to cold stun events is a critical part of the rescue and rehabilitation efforts at Sea Turtle Inc. Cold
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The record-setting freeze that hit Texas over the last week has devasted two species of well-established non-indigenous antelope species in several areas. The nilgai antelope, a native of India and Pakistan has been free-ranging along the Lower Coast from around
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Black-footed ferret recovery efforts aimed at increased genetic diversity and disease resistance took a bold step forward Dec. 10, 2020, with the birth of “Elizabeth Ann,” created from the frozen cells of “Willa,” a black-footed ferret that lived more than
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Jaguars captured on game cameras in New Mexico and Arizona have captured a fair amount of media attention over the last decade. A majestic species generally affiliated with the Amazon, jaguars are highly adaptable cats that fare just as well
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The Texas freeze kill event of 2021 is still unfolding. While it began early last week, warming conditions have revealed more fish, sea turtle and other wildlife deaths along the coast. So far the hardest hit areas around Lower Laguna
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As much of Texas has experienced historic winter weather, native wildlife populations throughout the state have also felt the impact. Texas Parks & Wildlife Department (TPWD) reminds the public that many native wildlife species will be able to survive short
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The freezing conditions that hit the Gulf Coast are now gone and many anglers and wildlife lovers are concerned with the aftermath. Reports of large kills of fish near Port O’Connor, Rockport, Aransas Pass and in the Port Mansfield era
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Wildlife artist Cory Carlson has been named as the 2021 Artist of the Year. Cory Carlson, from Ruston, Louisiana, has been exhibiting with DSC for nearly 13 years and has donated numerous, popular pieces for the auctions, which have in
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NOAA’s Nearshore Wave Prediction System (NWPS), which provides on-demand, high-resolution nearshore wave model guidance to U.S. coastal Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs), is undergoing significant upgrades today. As a part of this upgrade, the model will introduce the first-ever hourly probabilistic
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The coral reefs of Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary have thus far been free of coral disease. However, Florida’s coral reefs are currently experiencing a multi-year outbreak of a stony coral tissue loss disease that has now spread over 200 miles across
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The record-setting freeze event that struck Texas Sunday, has taken a dark turn along the coast as fish kills have been reported from Lower Laguna Madre to the Port O’Connor area. In his latest Higher Calling Gulf Coast podcast, Chester
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“It’s only gonna get worse. I found this approximately 36-inch tarpon floating in the marina harbor….very bad day for the neighborhood.” That Facebook post from Dean Thomas of Slow-ride Guide Services in Aransas Pass was the first evidence of fish
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