The U.S. Coast Guard on Monday released its 2012 Recreational Boating Statistics, revealing that boating fatalities last year totaled 651, the lowest number on record.
From 2011 to 2012, deaths in boating-related accidents decreased from 758 to 651, a 14.1 percent decrease; injuries decreased from 3,081 to 3,000, a 2.6...
Texas hunting regulations continually are altered and usually expanded to fit biological and access objectives set forth by Texas Parks & Wildlife Department hunting program leaders and biologists, and the proposals currently being considered for 2019-20 are no different.
Unlike in previous seasons, there aren't any radical or sweeping changes ...
A draft plan proposes $627 million in early restoration projects across Gulf states in connection with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, including five Texas projects to compensate for lost recreational use of natural resources.
The Texas projects in the Natural Resource Damage Assessment Trustees plan total about $18.4 million, according...
The stocking of keeper-size channel catfish has started for the 15 Neighborhood Fishin’ lakes in Texas and should be completed soon.
Additional stockings will take place every two weeks through the summer and fall except during August, when high water temperatures may limit fish survival.
“Neighborhood Fishin’ aims to give Texas...
The Texas Parks & Wildlife Department is offering Texas hunters and anglers 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 hunting and fishing licenses are sold, as well...
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission on Thursday approved  additional options for hunter education certification, including a streamlined, one-day basic course reducing the mandatory hours of classroom instruction from 10 to a maximum of six hours and creating an option for anyone 17 years of age or older to...
A 56-year-old Texas professional bass angler was shot to death at a Mississippi hotel Sunday.
James "Jimmy" Johnson, of Ganado, was competing in the Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Central Open tournament on Ross Barnett Reservoir near Jackson.
Jackson Police Department officials said Johnson was shot to death at a Motel 6,...
This year's pronghorn antelope season in the Texas Panhandle, which begins Saturday and runs through Oct. 6, will include an experimental framework that allows landowners to control harvest of buck pronghorn on their properties.
The experimental season will be in herd units 8, 17, and 25, which include portions of...
The Parks and Wildlife Commission recently approved a rule requiring anyone leaving or approaching public waters in 17 North Texas counties to drain their boats to prevent the spread of invasive zebra mussels.
Anglers and boaters leaving or approaching public water will be required to take all reasonable steps to...
From Texas Parks and Wildlife Department law enforcement reports
Getting Schooled: A McLennan County game warden received a call from a hunter to help locate a deer he shot while bowhunting. After further investigation, the warden found that the deer was shot on China Spring Independent School District property and...