TPWD Released 1 Billionth Fish into Texas Waters July 10
FROM TPWD NEWS RELEASE
LAKE JACKSON— Help the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) celebrate a Texas-sized milestone July 10th as biologists release the billionth hatchery-produced fingerling (one-to-two-inch fish).
TPWD has been stocking saltwater fish into Texas bays for more than 40 years to revitalize historic fisheries and speed up the recovery of overfished stocks. The billionth fish will be one of the most sought-after game fish in the state, a red drum fingerling, which has seen record high populations thanks to successful fishery management.
Below is information about the photo and video opportunity for the stocking:
Where: Seidler’s Boat Ramp- Christmas Bay, 521 Amigo Lane, Freeport, TX, 77541
Additional opportunities for interviews, as well as a tour of the hatchery, will be available at Sea Center Texas after the morning stocking. Sea Center Texas is located at 302 Medical Dr, Lake Jackson, TX, 77566.
The Subject of Stocking Fish in Our North Texas Prairies & Lakes Region
Behind these scenes, I am assembling a series of stories on the inequities of fish stocking in North Central Texas Prairies & Lakes Region. Whether you like stubborn facts, or you don’t, I challenge you the people who fish North Central Texas Lakes – to look at the fish stocking numbers coming from TPWD, and explain how such a inequity in stocking has been allowed to continue unchecked – for many years.
Future Stories and Projections for TPWD Fish Stocking in North Central Texas are boosted by the use of ChatGPT to fill in a very important and, to my reading, accurate article on how TPWD makes their fish stocking decisions for the State of Texas. The ChatGPT story is one that, if it has any holes in it, I don’t see them. Look for that first story on HOW TPWD DETERMINES WHERE TO STOCK FISH coming at us next week. It will be followed by a bunch of boring numbers, that reveal in detail, TPWD’s imbalances between population density and where they actually invest our resources (fish). The possibility of correcting these problems in the State of Texas’ system? You tell me! How quickly can an aircraft carrier turn?
Category: Fly Fishing AI ChatGPT, North Texas, Science and Environmental
