Texas Fish & Game

The National News of Texas

June 23, 2022

NOAA Approves New Redfish, Reef Fish Criteria

  NOAA Fisheries approved new criteria to inform Gulf of Mexico reef fish and red drum management.  The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council recommended these criteria changes for two amendments, Amendment 48 to the Fishery […]
November 3, 2021

NOAA Fisheries, FWS To Change “Habitat” Definition

NOAA Fisheries and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are proposing to rescind the joint regulatory definition of “habitat” finalized in December 2020. The U.S. FWS is also proposing to rescind their regulations governing critical habitat […]
February 4, 2020

MRIP: Ruining Saltwater Fisheries From Coast to Coast

Counting saltwater fish has always been a problem. Certainly, it’s not easy – fish move around, aren’t easy to see underwater in the first place, and don’t exactly stand up and raise their fins so we […]
November 7, 2019

Fish Stocks Near Record High

NOAA released the 2018 Status of U.S. Fisheries Annual Report to Congress that details the status of 479 federally-managed stocks or stock complexes in the U.S. to identify which stocks are subject to overfishing, are overfished, […]