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Sacks filled with oysters line the dock at Evelyn’s Seafood in Port
Lavaca in this undated photo. (Wave file photo)
up of dead shell and/or live
oysters less than three inches.
A final change proposed
to oyster regulations is the
elimination of Sunday as a legal
oyster fishing day
The idea with the changes,
Boyd said, is to “stretch the
season” into the wintertime.
Oysters are “fatter” in the
wintertime, Boyd said.
“if you stretch that season
out, you do get into better
oysters,” Boyd said.
Robinson said oysters begin
bulking up with glycogen as
waters get colder.
“When they’re harvesting
and shucking oysters, it yields
a bigger product per oyster. The
yield builds way up and the value
of the oyster in the half-shell
market, the price value, goes up,”
Robinson said. “The idea is to
push some of that harvest into
later into the season, ft should be
more valuable to the fisherman
and to the industry”
Robinson said the
department is also studying
at areas in the bay system at
the abundance of market-sized
oysters and oysters two to three
inches in size.
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contraptions, each
different purpose.
“For engineering, we built
a toothpick bridge and a tower
out of marshmallows and dry
spaghetti noodles,” Munsch said,
adding that her group also had to
build a device that would protect
an egg when dropped.
“But, TexPREP isn’t just
engineering and logic and things
like that,” Munsch said. “They
also had robotics.”
The robotics portion,
Munsch said, was held in the first
few weeks of the course. Students
were tasked with designing
and building a robot that could
complete certain tasks, Munsch
said.
“in my group, we were
assigned to find a noise and stop
that noise, in the second week of
robotics, we had to build a racer,”
Munsch said.
Martinez-Andrade, with TPWD,
translated the material in
Spanish for oyster men present.
No comments were given in
English, but Martinez-Andrade
listened to an oysterman speak
following Boyd’s presentation.
Martinez-Andrade said
oystermen indicated
the proposed changes
reasonable.
“They don’t want to make
comments. They said they think
these changes are fair,” Martinez-
Andrade said.
The public is invited to
give comments at a TPWD
Commission meeting slated for
9 am. Thursday Aug. 25 at the
TPWD headquarters located at
4200 Smith School Rd. in Austin.
“That is where they will
take final action on our proposed
changes,” Boyd said. “They allow
you to make verbal comments
there before they take final
action.”
Comments can also be
submitted online at http://
tpwd.texas.gov/business/
feedback/public_comment/
proposals/201608_oyster.phtml.
Online comments will
accepted through 7 am.
Thursday Aug. 25.
restoration efforts. The closures,
Boyd said, are proposed to last
two years.
“These closures are to
protect reefs that have recently
been restored, so that the reef
has time to recover and get
oysters up to market size,” Boyd
said.
Private and other public
leases will not be impacted by the
suggested regulation changes,
Boyd added.
Additional proposed
changes affect sack limits and
days to harvest oysters.
Current regulations allow
for 50 sacks per day The changes
proposed are to reduce that
amount to 40 sacks per day
Based on 2014-2015 season
harvest data, approximately
331,239 sacks of oysters were
harvested, Boyd said. A 40-sack
limit only is estimated to reduce
harvest by approximately three
percent or nearly 10,000 sacks
based on the 2014-2015 data,
according to Boyd. The closure
of Sunday as a harvest day is
estimated to reduce the amount
of sacks harvested by 14.1
percent, or almost 46,600 sacks,
he continued.
“You could potentially
reduce the harvest by 17.1 percent
in a repeat of the 2014-15 season,”
Boyd said. “We don’t believe
the harvest will be reduced that
much. We believe fishermen will
adapt and fish longer into the
season, and at time, increase the
number of sacks they harvested.
A lot of them don’t hit the 40 sack
limit, now”
The average number of
oyster sacks harvested per day
in the 2014-2015 season was 23,
Lance Robinson, deputy director
of the Coastal Fisheries Division.
Oyster fishing hours are
from sunrise to 3:30 pm., Boyd
said, adding that oysters have
a three-inch minimum size,
no more than 15 percent of an
oysterman’s catch can be made
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will support other chemistry
extracurricular activities as well
as chemistry curriculum at the
high school level.
The pre-astronomy class at
Travis will concentrate on the
study of stars, planets, space and
motion and will include hands-on
labs and activities, Boone said.
Robotics programs will be
offered at all levels district-wide,
Boone added.
The importance of STEM
courses have been stressed at
the national and local levels,
Robin Sonsel, Calhoun County
Independent School District
STEM Curriculum Specialist,
said.
“On a national level, the
U.S. Department of Education
has stressed the importance of
youth being equipped with the
knowledge and skills to solve
the world’s problems, gather and
evaluate evidence and develop
sensible solutions,” Sonsel said.
“Research proves these skills can
be obtained by studying science,
technology engineering and
math.”
“On a local level, Calhoun
County is home to several
manufacturing sites and service
providers. Employers need
for our future workforce to
understanding the science of
how things work,” Sonsel added.
“That’s why providing relevant
and engaging STEM initiatives
is a priority for Calhoun
County ISD and our partners in
education.”
Munsch, who has plans to
enter the engineering field when
she grows up, is already planning
to attend TexPREP again next
summer. She encouraged others
her age interested to attend.
“They should go ahead and
try it,” Munsch said. “You get to
learn a lot of new things, and you
get to meet a lot of new people to
hang out with.”
Each robot had a main
software programmer—
Munsch’s role for both
machines—and two builders.
“ft was really fun being able
to learn stuff and being able to
get ahead for the school year,”
Munsch said.
Munsch is unsure how
participating in the TexPREP
will help her studies in the
upcoming years. However, Travis
is adding new science classes in
addition to those already in place.
According to Amy
Boone, Partners in Education
coordinator, Travis is adding to
its elective class selection with
a pre-chemistry class and a pre-
astronomy class.
Pre-chemistry Boone said,
will investigate the properties of
substances and how they interact,
change and combine. The middle
school course, Boone added,
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French, Tania. The Port Lavaca Wave (Port Lavaca, Tex.), Vol. 125, No. 88, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 17, 2016, newspaper, August 17, 2016; Port Lavaca, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1301572/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Calhoun County Public Library.