The Gulf Podcast

S2E5: Watershed Citizenship in Baffin Bay, Texas

This is Part Two of our look into Baffin Bay water quality. As we learned last time, this Texas bay is known for its trophy trout, but many of the longtime anglers and guides had witnessed the decline of the bay over the last few decades. In Baffin, poor water quality affected seagrasses, shrimp and crabs, and of course those gigantic seatrout. What’s even more interesting was that one of the longtime fisherman, Scott Murray, became determined to do something about it. So we’re going to hear more about the citizen science project they created and the scientific discoveries they found. These citizen scientists are a great example of watershed citizenship.

Jen Brown

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Baffin Bay
Gulf of Mexico
Texas Gulf Coast
Harte Research Institute
water quality
fishing
spotted seatrout
nature
environment
history
freshwater inflow
brown tide
bays and estuaries
citizen science
oral history
watershed thinking
Gary Snyder