Every February, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department closes the bays to commercial and recreational crabbing for a 10-day period. This temporary closure enables removal of derelict traps which continue to entrap and kill crabs, fish, and turtles. This year, 900 traps were removed from the three Mid-Coast Bays (Matagorda, San Antonio, and Aransas). Additionally, 543 […]

Floundering the night of January 6 with Mike Zacko, Donnie Haynes saw what looked like a door mat. He stuck it and brought in this 7 pound flounder!

The Saturday after Christmas a dozen volunteers loaded a few hundred sacks of oyster shell onto a barge destined for Bill Day Reef. The sacks of shell were a result of multiple days of volunteer effort filling sacks in Seadrift and transporting them to POC TPWD dock. The project was organized by San Antonio Bay […]