CANCELED
Sorry we haven’t gotten back to you sooner on a date for the crab trap removal and clean up in Moses Lake. We’re going to try for February 27th at 8:30, meeting here at the TX City Prairie Preserve.
Sorry we haven’t gotten back to you sooner on a date for the crab trap removal and clean up in Moses Lake. We’re going to try for February 27th at 8:30, meeting here at the TX City Prairie Preserve.
TO REGISTER: Let us know if you’d like
to come out on the Feb. 27th by
emailing TERN@audubon.org no later than Wednesday
Feb.25th at 4pm!
By staying in the lake we should have more sheltered
conditions. The American Oystercatchers have already started nesting so
we will not be going near the spit to avoid disturbing them. We’ll launch the
kayaks from multiple spots- here at the office and at a couple of access points
along the shoreline towards the floodgate.
If you’d like to participate but don’t have a kayak, we have a limited number here at TCCP you can borrow. Email tern@audubon.org to reserve
one. What we’ll likely do is send out a couple of inflatable “trash barges”
that can be towed with a kayak to collect trash and crab traps and I’ll be
running along the shoreline with the ATV and a trailer or the truck and trailer
to collect whatever you guys bring back.
Incidentally any crab trap left in the water from 6am on
February 20th until 6pm on March 1st is
considered abandoned by the state and can be collected as trash. During this
10-day period, all Texas and the Louisiana side of Sabine Lake will be closed
to crabbing with wire mesh crab traps. Any traps left in the bay will be
assumed abandoned and considered “litter” under state law. This allows
volunteers to legally remove any crab traps they find.
If you’d like to clean
an area besides Moses Lake on this date, let us know. We are arranging
with TPWD to pick up the traps at TCCP, so you can drop off crab traps from
other sites here or there are several other locations we can provide you with
for disposal. TPWD is asking for data on any animal remains found in the
traps, especially diamondback terrapin. We will be identifying animal
remains in traps collected at TCCP and turning in the information to the state.
Amanda Hackney
Audubon Texas Coastal Program Manager
4702 Hwy 146 N
Texas City, TX 77590
Cell: 936-554-9033
Audubon Texas Coastal Program Manager
4702 Hwy 146 N
Texas City, TX 77590
Cell: 936-554-9033
