Texas Fauna Project

Eastern Oyster

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Lance Robinson worked as a biologist in the Coastal Fisheries Division of Texas Parks and Wildlife for 30 years. In this excerpt, he points out that areas of Sabine Lake protected from oyster dredging have reefs 8-10 feet tall, much higher than the inches-tall profile of reefs in fished bays elsewhere on the Texas coast, and reminiscent of past years when cattle were driven across Galveston Bay on the reefs that once came close to the surface.