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TPWD proposes lower mariculture permit fees, hears requests to allow Gulf-sourced triploid seed and to accelerate reef restoration
Summary
TPWD staff recommended reductions in annual cultivated oyster permit fees, and commissioners discussed industry requests to allow triploid seed sourced from other Gulf states, support for restoration COLs, a commercial license buyback and crop-insurance coordination.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department staff on March 26 proposed lowering annual fees for cultivated oyster mariculture permits and received industry requests to ease seed sourcing rules and accelerate coordinated restoration and industry-support actions.
Dr. Lindsey Glass Campbell of TPWD’s Coastal Fisheries division presented proposed reductions to mariculture fees. For grow‑out sites staff proposed lowering the public‑water fee from $450 per acre per year to $150 per acre per year and the private‑land fee from $170 per acre per year to $57 per acre per year. For nursery/hatchery sites staff proposed a minimum annual fee of $150 or the combined grow-out fee equivalent, whichever is greater, to help recoup inspection costs on very…
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