Proposed changes to the state’s hunter education certification program would streamline the process for the tens of thousands who take the course annually, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department officials said.
Anyone born after Sept. 1, 1971, must successfully complete a Hunter Education Training Course to hunt in Texas. Hunters can...
The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council has scheduled scoping workshops in Gulf states to get public input on a proposed amendment that examines a days-at-sea pilot program for the red snapper for-hire fishery.
The council is touting the workshops as the best opportunity for stakeholders to make suggestions or raise...
The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council voted Feb. 8 to recommend an emergency rule that could shorten the recreational red snapper fishing season in federal waters off the Texas coast to as little as 11 days from the planned 27-day season.
The recommendation passed by a narrow majority, over strong opposition...
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Division agents and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials are investigating after a whooping crane was found shot to death in Red River Parish, northeast of Toledo Bend Reservoir and the Texas border.
The whooping crane was found and recovered from the bank...
Compiled from recent Texas Parks and Wildlife Department law enforcement reports.
Drifting Away: Two Val Verde County game wardens responded to a distress call involving a small child trapped in a drifting boat. The boat had drifted into the middle of Amistad International Reservoir with a 7-year-old child, and the...
Texas anglers will have their first fall red snapper season since 2010, beginning Oct. 1, after the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council approved the supplemental framework and increased the quota for commercial and recreational anglers.
The overall Gulf quota was increased from 8.46 million pounds to 11 million pounds,...
The United States Geological Survey has confirmed that Lewisville Lake was found to harbor zebra mussels, making it the third lake in Texas, and the second within the Trinity River basin, where the invasive species has been discovered.
Christopher Churchill, a USGS biologist who has monitored for the mussels in...
This year's Texas red snapper fishing season is all about the good and the bad, hopefully without more ugly in what has become a contentious topic.
The Texas Parks & Wildlife Department has announced that the private recreational angler snapper season in federal waters off the Texas Gulf Coast will...
Noodling -- the practice of catching catfish with bare hands -- has only been legal in Texas since 2011, but fisheries officials are seeking to catch important data about the pursuit themselves.
The pursuit has hit the mainstream, being featured in numerous reality shows and TV programs, but the Texas...
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is offering the chance to win a lifetime super combo hunting and fishing license — an $1,800 value — for only $5.
Entries for the lifetime license drawing can be purchased anywhere licenses are sold, as well as on the TPWD website.
Two drawings will...