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Conservation Highlights Goose Island Marsh Restoration 2006 - 2011 C C A T E X A S Conservation Highlights Goose Island Marsh Restoration 2006 - 2011 ** $700,000 CCA Texas Laboratory for Marine Larviculture – UTMSI Port Aransas $500,000 100 acre oyster reef restoration project in East Galveston Bay ** $250,000 Shrimp License Buyback Program ** $175,572 TPWD summer internship program ** $150,000 Graduate-Level Scholarships at Texas A&M - College Station, Galveston & Corpus Christi and University of Texas Marine Science Institute $115,000 Offshore Artificial Reef between Matagorda and Port O’Connor ** $ 98,352 TPWD Game Warden Enforcement Equipment ** $ 70,000 Nueces Bay Delta water management system ** $ 50,000 TPWD Goose Island Marsh Restoration Project – Rockport $ 50,000 Offshore Artificial Vancouver Reef - Freeport $ 50,000 Offshore Artificial Reef - Port Mansfield $ 50,000 JD Muphree marsh protection project – Ducks Unlimited partnership ** $ 50,000 Endowment of the Allen Jacoby Memorial Scholarship at UTMSI $ 50,000 Bird Island Cove marsh restoration project - TPWD $ 42,000 Galveston Bay Sportsman’s Road Marsh Restoration Project – Galveston ** $ 40,000 CCA/CPL Marine Development Center youth fishing pier $ 40,000 Endowment of the Bob Brister Memorial Scholarship at UT – Austin ** $ 37,000 UTMSI Red Snapper Recreational Catch-and-Release Study $ 35,000 Bahia Grande Wetlands Restoration - Interior Channels Project ** $ 32,900 TPWD Game Warden Outpost Cabin - Lower Laguna Madre/Land Cut ** $ 32,000 TAMU – Harte Research Institute East Cut Study - Port Mansfield ** $ 30,500 UTMSI Snook Study ** $ 30,000 Flounder spawning equipment Sea Center Texas hatchery ** $ 25,000 CCA-CPL Marine Development Center – Calorimeter Equipment $ 25,000 Dickinson Bayou marsh restoration Project - TPWD ** $ 24,453 TAMU Summer Intern Program – Corpus Christi, Dickinson ** $ 24,000 Nueces Bay Marsh Restoration – CBBEP partnership $ 20,000 Snake Island Cove Habitat Protection and Seagrass Restoration ** $ 20,000 UTMSI Tripletail Fishery Study ** $ 18,124 TPWD Game Warden enforcement equipment (night vision and GPS/Plotters) ** $ 17,400 TPWD Fisheries Management Division – Navigation Equipment ** $ 16,000 Perry R. Bass Marine Fisheries Research Center – Otolith Saw ** $ 16,000 Flounder spawning equipment Flour Bluff hatchery ** $ 15,876 Boat lift for 38’ TPWD enforcement boat $ 15,000 Sabine Lake deep reef 10 acre expansion and monitoring program ** $ 14,600 CCA Texas Laboratory for Marine Larviculture – Micro-Controlled Feeding System ** $ 14,000 Flounder Brood fish collection boat Sea Center Texas hatchery ** $ 13,875 Sea Center Texas - Flounder Research Equipment ** $ 12,000 Five units of side sonar equipment for TPWD game wardens $ 10,000 Sea Center Texas flounder hatchery equipment ** $ 9,745 Crab Trap Cleanup Program $ 5,945 Lower Laguna Madre Mangrove planting study – The University of Texas – Pan American ** $ 5,600 Redfish Bay debris removal - CBBEP partnership ** $ 5,100 TPWD Baffin Bay outpost cabin maintenance/repairs $ 5,000 Texas General Land Office Expo - Event sponsor $ 3,500 Flounder Revolution replica program $ 2,500 Texas water seminar presented by TPWD ** $ 1,800 TPWD - Flounder Broodfish Collection Project ** $ 750 Women in the Wild program sponsorship—Rockport Your Conservation Dollars at Work $3,019,592 ** $2,000,647 with a direct impact on the Coastal Bend area of Texas www.CCATexas.org .
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