Palacios, Texas · Matagorda Bay
Texas Redfish,
Raised Right.
Turtle Creek Aquaculture raises Redfish in Texas for two purposes: to put the state's most iconic fish on more Texas tables, and to help Texas waters stay full of it. Year-round. Lot-tagged. From hatch to harvest, on our farm.
Why buyers call Texas first
Year-round redfish, with the receipts.
Wild commercial redfish is illegal in Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, and federal Gulf waters. If a chef or distributor is sourcing fresh redfish in the United States, the fish is farmed — and there's a very good chance it was produced in Texas.
01 · Year-round
Harvest on a kitchen schedule.
Wild Redfish has tight regulatory windows. Farmed Redfish lets a chef build a menu without seasonal whiplash. We harvest to order.
02 · Fresh, not frozen
Farm-gate to delivery.
No IQF intermediaries. Our fish ships whole or filleted from Palacios — cold-chain monitored, lot-tagged on every carton.
03 · Lot-traceable
A fillet you can trace.
Every shipping carton carries a lot ID that traces back to the broodstock, the raceway, and the harvest date. Marketing matches the filing.
"If you buy farm-raised red drum at a supermarket or order it at a restaurant anywhere in the U.S., there's a very good chance that it was produced in Texas."
— Todd Sink, Ph.D., Texas A&M AgriLife Extension (AgriLife, 2024)
The third-party record
What others have written about this farm and this fish.
We make our claims small and our citations big. Here's what people who don't work for us have said on the record.
NOAA Fisheries · 2023
Profiled by NOAA's Office of Aquaculture for our farm and constructed-wetlands work.
Tide to Table profile →Texas Sea Grant · 2025
Named alongside two peer Matagorda County farms in a Texas Sea Grant feature on Texas redfish aquaculture.
Read the feature →Seafood Watch
U.S. pond-farmed redfish is rated Best Choice — see the Monterey Bay Aquarium assessment.
Read the report (PDF) →93 Til, Houston · 2022
"It's so fresh, I think they grab it right out of the pond and bring it to us."
Lung Ly, owner — OutSmart →Who we serve
One species. Three audiences.
Restaurants · Distributors · Retailers · Brokers · Hotels
For Buyers
Year-round Texas Redfish, whole or filleted, harvested to order. Lot-tagged, cold-chain monitored, with a dedicated page for each kind of buyer.
See what we shipAgencies · TPWD-aligned partners
For Conservation
Native-species fingerlings and grow-out for stocking and restoration partners, with documented genetics, health certificates, and water-quality records.
Partnership frameworkAbout the farm
126 acres on Matagorda Bay
Family-owned and operated, single-species, vertically integrated. Permitting started in 2008; full buildout completed in 2020.
Read our storyFive ways we prove it
Specifics over slogans.
Five message pillars — every campaign, page, and post we publish should ladder up to one of them. Each one is a measurable claim, not an adjective.
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Quality you can grade
Every fish is hand-graded at harvest, sized to a published spec, and shipped with a lot ID on every carton. Cold chain monitored end-to-end.
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Sustainability you can verify
Recirculating systems, settling basins, and a constructed wetland for discharge polishing. Annual data, not a slogan. See our practices →
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Texas origin, Texas native
A Texas-native species, raised in Texas, for Texas tables and Texas waters. Sciaenops ocellatus, the official state saltwater fish.
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Traceability end to end
Broodstock genetics, hatchery date, raceway, harvest date, processor, carton ID, recipient. From the broodstock to the box.
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Conservation partnership
The wild fishery is part of our mission, not a side market. We partner with the Matagorda Bay Foundation on saltmarsh restoration.
Ready to talk?
If you source fish for a kitchen, a counter, or a banquet, the fastest path to your first delivery is a phone call. First time sourcing redfish? Read our wholesale buyer's guide before you dial.