Biologists Not Seeing Traditional Juvenile Fish in Gulf of Mexico as Waters Warm
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Longview News-Journal] KIM McGUIRE - September 5, 2017
HOUSTON — Ryan Macias and Grant Lewis methodically unfurled a low-slung net stretched between two poles and began dragging it across the bottom of Matagorda Bay one cloudy morning in early May.
The water was the color of chocolate milk, and shallow, only about waist-deep on Macias, a field technician for the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department.
The seine net dragged up a half-dozen sea creatures — a couple of brown shrimp, a pink one, and a tiny, translucent jellyfish.
But Leslie Hartman, TPWD's Matagorda Bay Ecosystem Leader who was overseeing the work, quickly saw what was...
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