CCA Texas

Monday, March 31st, 2008 CCA Texas Helps Complete Shrimp License Buyback Program

Additional $50,000 makes CCA Texas largest single contributor to landmark conservation program   Houston, TX – In a continuing effort to reduce the harmful impact of shrimp trawls in Texas coastal waters, Coastal Conservation Association Texas (CCA Texas) has made an additional $50,000 commitment to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) bay and bait shrimp license [...]

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007 CCA Texas and UTMSI Open Marine Science Lab

$800,000 Laboratory for Marine Larviculture to take fisheries research to unprecedented level              Houston, TX – Officials and guests from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute (UTMSI) and Coastal Conservation Association Texas (CCA Texas) recently gathered in Port Aransas to celebrate the grand opening of the newly built 3,000-square-foot CCA Texas Laboratory for Marine Larviculture.  [...]

Monday, June 18th, 2007 CCA Cleanup Project Wins National Recognition

HOUSTON, TX – One person’s trash really is another person’s treasure.  A project that has removed tons of debris and trash from Texas bays and beaches officially turned to gold when Coastal Conservation Association Texas’ Bay Debris Cleanup program received the 2007 Sustainable Fisheries Leadership Award bestowed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA). [...]

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007 Marine Laboratory Breaks Ground

Coastal Conservation Association and University of Texas Marine Science Institute partner for the creation of $700,000 marine science lab                 Houston, TX – Representatives of Coastal Conservation Association (CCA) and the University of Texas Marine Science Institute (UTMSI) recently met in Port Aransas, Texas to ceremonially break ground on what will be one of the foremost [...]

Monday, November 21st, 2005 CCA Texas to Fund $600,000 UTMSI Lab

Thanks to the hard work of thousands of volunteers, CCA Texas had one of its strongest years in project funding for the future of our coastal resources in 2005.  Among a number of far-reaching coastal conservation projects, CCA Texas funded $60,000 for the Bahia Grande wetlands restoration project, which is one of the largest marsh-restoration [...]