Events

State-specific oyster management documents provide the primary frameworks for decision-making. This seminar presents a study which analyzes the most current oyster fishery guidance document for each U.S. Gulf state using corpus linguistics techniques—including keyword and concordance analyses—to identify what makes each document distinct and how those distinctions can be related to each other in a regional framework.

The Baffin Bay Stakeholder Group (BBSG) was formed in 2018 to better understand water quality issues in Baffin Bay and develop collaborative solutions. Bringing Baffin Back™, a collaboration between HRI, the Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program, and the BBSG, unites efforts to protect the Bay and its watershed under one initiative. We invite you to join the conversation at this year’s annual Baffin Bay Stakeholder Group meeting.

The Coastal Program is one of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s most effective resources for restoring and protecting fish and wildlife habitat on public and privately-owned lands. This talk will highlight a few partnerships and different techniques used to restore or enhance habitat that benefit federal trust species including threatened and endangered species, migratory birds, and interjurisdictional fish.