Seine and Trotline Tag Purchases by Licensed Commercial Saltwater Finfish Fishermen During September 1984-August 1987 (open access)

Seine and Trotline Tag Purchases by Licensed Commercial Saltwater Finfish Fishermen During September 1984-August 1987

Report on study of commercial saltwater finfish fishermen, including their seine tag purchases, trotline tag purchases, and the counties these were bought in.
Date: March 1990
Creator: Green, Lee M. & Matlock, Gary C.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Closure Dates for the 1990 Texas Gulf Shrimping Season (open access)

Closure Dates for the 1990 Texas Gulf Shrimping Season

Report documenting information about the Texas Gulf shrimping season, including determining opening and closing dates of the 1990 shrimiping season in the Texas Territorial sea.
Date: 1990
Creator: Fuls, Billy E.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Demographics, Participation, Attitudes, Expenditures, and Management Preferences of Texas Non-Resident Anglers, 1987 (open access)

Demographics, Participation, Attitudes, Expenditures, and Management Preferences of Texas Non-Resident Anglers, 1987

Report documenting statistics related to commercial fishery landings, including the collection and analysis of biological data. Some mention of the social and economic aspect of fishing is found, but the focus is data.
Date: 1988
Creator: Donaldson, David M.; Osborn, Maury F.; Faulkner, Kelly; Ditton, Robert B. & Matlock, Gary C.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stocking as a Management Tool For a Red Drum Fishery, A Preliminary Evaluation (open access)

Stocking as a Management Tool For a Red Drum Fishery, A Preliminary Evaluation

Report of a study conducted in St. Charles Bay and Aransas Bay to determine if stocked fish could potentially enhance native populations of red drum fishes in these waters.
Date: 1986
Creator: Matlock, Gary C.; Kemp, Robert J., Jr. & Heffernan, Thomas J.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rehabilitation of Public Oyster Reefs Damaged by a Natural Disaster in Galveston Bay No. 84 1992 (open access)

Rehabilitation of Public Oyster Reefs Damaged by a Natural Disaster in Galveston Bay No. 84 1992

Report on Rehabilitation of Public Oyster Reefs Damaged by a Natural Disaster in Galveston Bay
Date: 1992
Creator: Bowling, B. G.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Comparison of Trawl Catches Using Two Different Towing Lines (open access)

Comparison of Trawl Catches Using Two Different Towing Lines

Report issued by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Coastal Fisheries Branch. This study was conducted to 1) compare catch rates in trawls pulled with nylon rope and in trawls pulled with wire cable and 2) determine if towing gear (nylon rope vs wire cable) affects loss or damage of trawls.
Date: December 1985
Creator: Mambretti, J. M.; Mercer, W. E. & McEachron, L. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Occurrence of Select Juvenile Fishes During Post Spawning Periods in Texas Bay-Gulf Passes (open access)

Occurrence of Select Juvenile Fishes During Post Spawning Periods in Texas Bay-Gulf Passes

Report
Date: April 1986
Creator: Martin, J. H. & McEachron, L. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Commercial Harvest Statistics: 1977-1982 (open access)

Texas Commercial Harvest Statistics: 1977-1982

Report documenting statistics related to commercial harvest of fisheries including Commercial landings of marine species from Texas bays and Gulf of Mexico.
Date: 1983
Creator: Hamilton, C. L. (Claude L.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Commercial Harvest Statistics: 1977-1981 (open access)

Texas Commercial Harvest Statistics: 1977-1981

Report documenting statistics related to commercial harvest of fisheries including finfishes and shellfishes from Texas bays and from Texas Territorial waters in the Gulf of Mexico.
Date: 1982
Creator: Hamilton, C. L. (Claude L.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Commercial Harvest Statistics: 1977-1980 (open access)

Texas Commercial Harvest Statistics: 1977-1980

Report documenting statistics related to commercial harvest of fisheries including shrimp value and poundage from 1977 to 1980.
Date: 1981
Creator: Hamilton, C. L. (Claude L.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Florida Largemouth Bass Culture in Texas (open access)

Florida Largemouth Bass Culture in Texas

Abstract: Since 1971, approximately thirty-eight million Florida largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides floridanus) were stocked into Texas waters. Fish for stocking were cultured using techniques described in this manual.
Date: June 1990
Creator: Hutson, Pat L.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trends in Relative Abundance and Size of Selected Finfishes and Shellfishes Along the Texas Coast: November 1975-December 2016 (open access)

Trends in Relative Abundance and Size of Selected Finfishes and Shellfishes Along the Texas Coast: November 1975-December 2016

Report documenting information about the trends in relative abundance and size of select fin fishes and shellfishes along the coast of Texas.
Date: March 2018
Creator: Martinez-Andrade, Fernando
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Survey of Shore-Based Bay-Pass and Gulf of Mexico Anglers in Texas, May 2013-May 2014, with comparisons to Concurrent Survey of Private-Boat Bay-Pass Anglers (open access)

Survey of Shore-Based Bay-Pass and Gulf of Mexico Anglers in Texas, May 2013-May 2014, with comparisons to Concurrent Survey of Private-Boat Bay-Pass Anglers

Report on Survey of Shore-Based Bay-Pass and Gulf of Mexico Anglers in Texas.(May 2013-May 2014)
Date: October 2018
Creator: Green, Lee M.; Pettis, Evan L. & Lerma, Liana
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fate and Habitat Use of Rainbow Trout Stocked in the Canyon Reservoir Tailrace (open access)

Fate and Habitat Use of Rainbow Trout Stocked in the Canyon Reservoir Tailrace

Report over a study conducted to document fate and habitat use of rainbow trout stocked in the Canyon Reservoir Tailrace intended to make recommendations for guiding habitat improvement projects which might decrease losses and increase the number of carryover trout available to anglers. Also includes a report of results of a separate study conducted after tracking was completed to document transmitter retention.
Date: February 2020
Creator: Magnelia, Stephan J. (Stephan John), 1961- & Cummings, Greg A. (Biologist)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Review of Hooking Mortality, Associated Influential Factors, and Angling Gear Restrictions, With Implications for Management of the Alligator Gar (open access)

Review of Hooking Mortality, Associated Influential Factors, and Angling Gear Restrictions, With Implications for Management of the Alligator Gar

Review of information concerning hooking mortality in catch-and-release fisheries, as well as gear-based regulations and best management practices (BMPs) in place to minimize its occurrence.
Date: December 2019
Creator: Daugherty, Daniel J. & Bennett, Daniel L.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nitrogen Fertilizer Reduction and Nutrient Budgets in Florida Largemouth Bass Micropterus salmoides floridanus Fingerling Rearing Ponds (open access)

Nitrogen Fertilizer Reduction and Nutrient Budgets in Florida Largemouth Bass Micropterus salmoides floridanus Fingerling Rearing Ponds

Report on a study over the effect of nitrogen reduction on phytoplankton and zooplankton production in Florida Largemouth Bass rearing ponds.
Date: January 2020
Creator: Prangnell, David (Aquaculturist) & Steinmetz, Gary (Chemist)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Copepod Propagation and Use as a Live Food for Fish Larviculture (open access)

Copepod Propagation and Use as a Live Food for Fish Larviculture

Report on "a preliminary investigation of culturing microalgae and the copepods Acartia tonsa...to gain insight on indoor culturing of copepods for use at Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's CCA Marine Development Center" (p. 3).
Date: January 2021
Creator: Williamson, Angela; Blandon, Ivonne; Scarpa, John; Vega, Robert & Siccardi, Anthony
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Diel (24 Hour) Monitoring of Fish Cut Bait and Catch on Freshwater Trotlines (open access)

Diel (24 Hour) Monitoring of Fish Cut Bait and Catch on Freshwater Trotlines

Report investigates "the diel dynamic of bait retention and catch rates of trotlines over 24 hours" (Abstract).
Date: March 2022
Creator: McDonald, Dusty (Natural resource specialist); Ashe, Daniel & Schlechte, J. Warren
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History