Formula Grant F25AF02411
- This $153,865 Formula Grant was awarded on January 1, 2025 by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the State Wildlife Grants (CFDA 15.634) program. The purpose of the project is to provide new information on the ecology of juvenile Atlantic tarpon and snook species occurring in nursery habitats along the Texas coast. The grant will fund standardized bimonthly field sampling, mark-recapture tagging, and validation of citizen science reports to characterize the seasonal residency, habitat use,...
- This $153,852 Federal Formula Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's State Wildlife Grants (CFDA 15.634) program will fund a project by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) to identify and characterize southern flounder spawning grounds and associated habitat parameters in Texas using satellite telemetry. The project directly addresses a priority research need identified in Texas' State Wildlife Action Plan for the southern flounder, a species of greatest conservation...
- This $153,546 Formula Grant awarded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the State Wildlife Grants (CFDA 15.634) program supports the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's research on the southern flounder, an important fish species in coastal Texas waters. The project aims to use bioenergetics modeling to elucidate the ecological mechanisms underlying flounder population dynamics, which have seen drastic declines since the 1990s. The research will focus on understanding factors like...
- The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $153,816 Formula Grant under the State Wildlife Grants (CFDA 15.634) program to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD). The purpose of the grant is to update predictive models that characterize the spatial distribution and abundance patterns of the southern flounder, a species of greatest conservation need, in Texas estuaries. The project leverages TPWD's long-term fishery-independent data, such as bag seine and...
- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $153,902 Formula Grant under the State Wildlife Grants (CFDA 15.634) program to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD). The purpose of this 2-year project is to estimate southern flounder fall spawning migration probability and timing in the Laguna Madre using acoustic telemetry. This research directly addresses a priority of the State Wildlife Grants program to study southern flounder movements and survival in...
- This $6,672,821 Formula Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service (CFDA 15.605 - Sport Fish Restoration) supports the collection of long-term standardized fishery data necessary to monitor and manage marine fisheries resources along the 367-mile Texas coastline, including inshore bays, estuaries, and territorial sea waters. The data will be entered into a 40+ year database and used to determine and monitor trends in the relative abundance and landings of...
- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $153,845 Formula Grant under the State Wildlife Grants (CFDA 15.634) program to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. The purpose of this 18-month project is to conduct a multi-gear assessment of the fish community at the Corpus Christi Nearshore Reef in Texas to determine how the fish community has changed in the 10 years since the last standardized monitoring was conducted. The assessment will use small fish traps, vertical line, and baited...
- This $9,908,401.27 Formula Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service under the Sport Fish Restoration program (CFDA 15.605) supports the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's (TPWD) efforts to provide the best possible fishing in Texas while protecting and enhancing its freshwater aquatic resources. The grant funding will enable TPWD to conduct fish population and ecological surveys, develop science-based management plans, coordinate habitat enhancement...
- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $194,755 Formula Grant under the State Wildlife Grants (CFDA 15.634) program to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) on September 1, 2025. The grant will fund a project to understand the distributions, life histories, and habitat requirements of the Fallicambarus species of primary burrowing crayfishes in Texas through traditional sampling, geospatial analyses, and population genetics analyses. This data-deficient group of endemic Texas...
- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, under the State Wildlife Grants (CFDA 15.634) program, awarded the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) a $153,849.00 Formula Grant on January 1, 2025. The grant aims to use acoustic and satellite telemetry to assess migration patterns and post-release mortality of tarpon, a species of greatest conservation need in Texas. The project will track adult tarpon in coastal waters along the Texas-Louisiana and Texas-Mexico borders using an array of acoustic...
This $151,725 Federal Formula Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service (CFDA 15.634 - State Wildlife Grants Program) supports a project by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) to study the habitat requirements and population dynamics of the common snook, an ecologically and economically important fish species in Texas. The project will analyze archived otolith (ear bone) samples to understand the snook's lifetime movements across salinity gradients and identify indicators of sex change in the protandrous hermaphroditic species. This research aims to fill critical knowledge gaps and support the recovery of snook populations in Texas, which declined significantly in the 20th century due to overfishing and environmental events. The project will run from January 1, 2026 to December 31, 2027.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $98.6k | 8/12/25 |