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Abandoned Crab Trap Removal

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Shorelines Cleanup

Mark your calendar for September 21-26, 2026. Registration to open August 1.
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    2026 Shorelines Cleanup

    Volunteer Opportunity
    Event Week: September 21 to September 26
    Main Event: September 26

    Location: Texas Mid-Coast region
    Details: Mark Your Calendar to join us for the annual Shorelines Clean Up. This boat based event Removes Awful Trash from our local bays. Opportunities for groups to participate are available throughout the week. The main event will be Saturday, September 26 followed by the Celebrate a Cleaner Bay volunteer appreciation dinner and educational program. Registration will open August 1st.

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    San Antonio Bay Partnership

    Creating and sustaining a working partnership of committed stakeholders to protect, restore, and enhance the San Antonio Bay System.

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    💙June is National Zoo and Aquarium Month. SABP would like to recognize our incredible partner, the Texas State Aquarium. The Wildlife Rescue Center is just one part of their mission to protect, rescue and recover our local marine animals. During cold stunning events turtles are brought to the Wildlife Rescue Center not only from our Mid-Coast, but from the Corpus, Port Aransas, Laguna Madre and Padre Island areas. They assess and care for each turtle then set it free as quickly as conditions allow. These remarkable rescue efforts are only possible because of the Aquarium's dedicated staff. Thank you to the Texas State Aquarium for making a lasting difference for our coastal wildlife and for inspiring the next generation of ocean stewards every day. -Bejat McCracken & Brigid Berger #TexasStateAquarium #MidCoastSeaTurtleRescue #SanAntonioBayPartnership #ConservationInAction #PartnershipsMatter
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    💙June is National Zoo and Aquarium Month. SABP would like to recognize our incredible partner,...

    🌿🌊 The San Antonio Bay Partnership participated in the 2026 Rockport Ecosystem Summit on Friday, hosted by the Rockport Cultural Arts District and held at the Aransas County Community Center. The summit brought together scientists, conservation organizations, educators, community leaders, artists, and environmental advocates from across the Coastal Bend to discuss the future of our coastal ecosystems and communities. Topics ranged from conservation and restoration to ecotourism, environmental education, freshwater resources, and community advocacy with an outstanding lineup of speakers, including representatives from #TheNatureConservancy, #TexasAMAgriLifeExtension, #CleanCoastTexas, #AransasFirstLandTrust, #FreshwaterTexas, #Flatsworthy, #BigTreeOysterFarm, #CoastalBendBaysFoundation and and many others working to protect and enhance our coastal resources. Events like the Ecosystem Summit highlight the importance of collaboration in addressing the challenges facing our bays, estuaries, wetlands, wildlife habitats, and coastal communities. The San Antonio Bay Partnership remains committed to working alongside our partners to advance conservation, restoration, education, and stewardship efforts throughout the Texas Mid-Coast. -BejatMcCracken #SanAntonioBayPartnership #RockportEcosystemSummit #TexasCoast #CoastalConservation #EnvironmentalStewardship #HealthyBays #CoastalResilience #EducateCollaborateSustain #PartnershipInAction #TexasMidCoast
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    🌿🌊 The San Antonio Bay Partnership participated in the 2026 Rockport Ecosystem Summit on Friday,...

    🐢💚 Happy World Sea Turtle Day! Today, we celebrate the incredible sea turtles that call the mid-coast Texas coastal waters home and recognize the many partners, volunteers, and community members working to protect them. The San Antonio Bay Partnership’s Mid-Coast Sea Turtle Rescue Program is dedicated to responding to stranded, injured, and cold-stunned sea turtles throughout the San Antonio Bay region. This past winter, 200 hundred cold-stunned sea turtles were recovered by our volunteers and we responded to 10 additional stranded turtles. From coordinating rescue efforts during winter cold-stun events to assisting with transportation, response logistics, and public outreach, our team works alongside dedicated partners to give these remarkable animals a second chance. Sea turtles play an important role in maintaining healthy marine ecosystems, and their conservation depends on all of us. Thank you to everyone who supports rescue, rehabilitation, research, and habitat protection efforts along the Texas coast. If you encounter a stranded or injured sea turtle, contact the Texas Sea Turtle Hotline (866-887-8535, option 3). Together, we can help ensure a brighter future for sea turtles in the San Antonio Bay system and beyond. -Bejat McCracken #WorldSeaTurtleDay #SeaTurtleConservation #MidCoastSeaTurtleRescue #SanAntonioBayPartnership #TexasCoast #MarineConservation #ProtectWhatYouLove
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    🐢💚 Happy World Sea Turtle Day! Today, we celebrate the incredible sea turtles that call...

    🦀 Retire Your Old Crab Traps on or before Wednesday! Have old or unusable crab traps taking up space? Bring them to the Dockside Lot for our team to dismantle, crush, and recycle them. The San Antonio Bay Partnership and Dockside Bait & Tackle are collecting retired crab traps for recycling. 📍 Dockside Bait & Tackle 110 E. Washington Ave. Seadrift, TX 📅 Drop off on or before June 17 The traps will be crushed and recycled on June 18 📖 Learn more at https://bit.ly/4a0JM3A Thank you to the crabbers, volunteers, community members, and #MatagordaBayMitigationTrust for helping protect our bays and the wildlife that depend on them. -Bejat McCracken #RetireYourTrap #SanAntonioBayPartnership #KeepOurBaysClean #CrabTrapRecycling #TexasMidCoast
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    🦀 Retire Your Old Crab Traps on or before Wednesday! Have old or unusable crab...

    🦀 🌊 Beneath the surface, a hidden threat remains. When the San Antonio Bay Partnership completes the 18 month large-scale benthic habitat mapping across more than 81,000 acres of the San Antonio Bay with #AnchorQEA, we’re taking the next step in launching a Ghost Trap Removal Initiative. Using advanced sonar technology, we will identify and remove lost and abandoned crab traps hidden on the bay bottom. These traps that continue to capture marine life, damage habitat, and threaten species. By combining detailed benthic mapping with targeted trap detection and removal, we’re working to protect the health of San Antonio Bay from the bottom up. This project would not be possible without the support of #MatagordaBayMitigationTrust. -Bejat McCracken #SanAntonioBayPartnership #GhostTrapRemoval #MarineDebris #BenthicMapping #Conservation #TexasCoast #HabitatRestoration
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    🦀 🌊 Beneath the surface, a hidden threat remains. When the San Antonio Bay Partnership...

    🌎🌊 Happy World Environment Day! Today, we celebrate the natural resources that make the San Antonio Bay system one of Texas’ most valuable and productive coastal ecosystems. From seagrass meadows and marshes to oyster reefs, rookery islands, and open bays, these habitats support wildlife, fisheries, local economies, and the communities that call the Texas coast home. At the San Antonio Bay Partnership, World Environment Day is a reminder that conservation is a shared responsibility. Through habitat restoration, marine debris removal, water quality initiatives, coastal education, sea turtle rescue, benthic habitat mapping, and community partnerships, we are working to ensure a healthy and resilient bay for future generations. Protecting our environment starts with small actions and grows through collaboration. We are grateful to our volunteers, partners, supporters, and coastal communities who help make this work possible every day. Together, we can protect, restore, and sustain the San Antonio Bay system for generations to come. 🌊🐢🦀🐟🐦 -Bejat McCracken #WorldEnvironmentDay #SanAntonioBayPartnership #Conservation #HabitatRestoration #TexasCoast #ProtectOurBay #CoastalResilience #EnvironmentalStewardship
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    🌎🌊 Happy World Environment Day! Today, we celebrate the natural resources that make the San...

    🌊🪺 Building Habitat for the Future. The San Antonio Bay Partnership is working to advance the Little Bird Island North Rookery Island project to create new coastal bird habitat while strengthening the resilience of the San Antonio Bay system. With Anchor QEA doing the engineering work, key partners consulted are #USFishandWildlife, #TexasParksandWildlife, #USArmyCoreofEngineers, #CoastalBendBaysandEdutariesProgram, #TexasGeneralLandOffice, #NatureConservancy, #AudubonTexas. Supported by the Matagorda Bay Mitigation Trust, the project will beneficially use dredged material to create a new rookery island designed to support colonial nesting birds, enhance oyster habitat, and improve long-term coastal resilience. As engineering and permitting move forward, SABP continues working to position this important habitat restoration project for future implementation funding. -Bejat McCracken #SanAntonioBayPartnership #CoastalRestoration #RookeryIsland #HabitatRestoration #TexasCoast #CoastalResilience #NatureBasedSolutions #BirdConservation
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    🌊🪺 Building Habitat for the Future. The San Antonio Bay Partnership is working to advance...

    🌊 🌱 Exciting News for Shoalwater Bay! The San Antonio Bay Partnership recently held a kickoff meeting with agency stakeholders for a new large-scale living shoreline initiative focused on protecting and restoring Shoalwater Bay’s rapidly eroding barrier islands and vulnerable coastal habitats. Anchor QEA will gather the data and conduct studies to identify solutions. Supported by the Matagorda Bay Mitigation Trust, this project will evaluate shoreline protection strategies to help conserve more than 1,000 acres of vulnerable seagrass habitat now exposed to increasing wave energy and sedimentation as barrier islands along Espiritu Santo Bay continue to degrade. The effort will include bathymetric and topographic mapping, coastal engineering analyses, and development of conceptual shoreline protection alternatives to strengthen long-term coastal resilience. We look forward to collaborating with @texasparkswildlife, @usfws @cca_midcoast @coastalbendbaysfoundation, @matbayfoundation, @flatsworthytx, @audubontexas and #AnchorQEA as this important Texas mid-coast conservation initiative moves forward. - Bejat McCracken #SanAntonioBayPartnership #ShoalwaterBay #LivingShorelines #CoastalRestoration #HabitatRestoration #Seagrass #Conservation
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    🌊 🌱 Exciting News for Shoalwater Bay! The San Antonio Bay Partnership recently held a...

    🐢 Happy World Turtle Day from the San Antonio Bay Partnership! Right now, our local marine life faces massive threats from microplastics and industrial plastic pollution. Every piece of trash we keep out of the water gives a sea turtle a fighting chance. Here is how you can help protect our coastal neighbors today: 🚫 Cut the plastic: Switch to reusable bags, bottles, and straws. 🚮 Pack it out: Keep our beaches and boat ramps 100% litter-free. If you find an injured or stranded sea turtle, call the Texas Sea Turtle Hotline 866-887-8535, press 3 for our mid-coast bays. 🌊 Let’s work together to ensure these ancient mariners thrive for generations to come. -BejatMcCracken #WorldTurtleDay #TexasCoast #SanAntonioBay #MarineConservation
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    🐢 Happy World Turtle Day from the San Antonio Bay Partnership!

    Right now, our local...