Texas Fauna Project

Shrimp

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Andy Sansom served as executive director of Texas Parks and Wildlife from 1990 through 2001. During his tenure, one of the biggest concerns in the coastal fishery program was the risk posed by the shrimp aquaculture industry, and the chance that it might introduce non-native shrimp or exotic disease into the Texas bay system. Here, Dr. Sansom recalls one close call.