For Conservation
For the agencies and partners rebuilding the wild fishery.
Documented native-species production for stocking programs, restoration projects, and the science conversation behind both.
Turtle Creek Aquaculture produces native Redfish — Sciaenops ocellatus — for both food markets and stocking programs. Every lot ships with broodstock genetics records, health certification, and water-quality data. Our biosecurity protocols are documented, our mortality data is published annually, and our team has the relationships and logistics to support stocking schedules across the state. Conservation work is part of our mission, not a sideline.
What every lot ships with
The paper trail is the product.
For a TPWD-aligned partner, the spec sheet matters more than the marketing. Below: the documented record that travels with every lot we deliver.
01 · Broodstock
Documented genetics.
Per-lot broodstock records: source bay, genetic provenance, parent identifier. Aligned with regional populations. We never imply we follow the TPWD bay-specific rotation unless we actually do; we say what's documented and stop there.
02 · Health
Health certification.
Disease-free certification per shipment. We do not move fish into a sensitive water body without the paper to back the move.
03 · Water quality
Water-quality records.
Per-raceway water-quality logs, on the regulatory cadence — temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, ammonia, pH. Available on request to partner agencies.
04 · Biosecurity
Documented protocols.
Quarantine, gear sanitation, vehicle decontamination, pathogen-monitoring schedule. Our biosecurity SOP is reviewed annually and available for partner due-diligence.
The 30-second pitch
Turtle Creek Aquaculture produces native Redfish — Sciaenops ocellatus — for both food markets and stocking programs. Every lot ships with broodstock genetics records, health certification, and water-quality data. Our biosecurity protocols are documented, our mortality data is published annually, and our team has the relationships and logistics to support stocking schedules across the state. Conservation work is part of our mission, not a sideline.
From our brand foundation
Partnership framing
The wild fishery is part of the mission.
Why a fish farm cares about wild stocks
The 1980 Cajun-cuisine craze pushed Gulf wild redfish from a 2.7-million-pound annual catch to 8.3 million pounds by 1986. The federal commercial ban arrived in 1987. Texas had already designated Redfish a state game fish in 1981. The stocking programs that have rebuilt the wild fishery since the 1980s are the reason the species is still in the bays at all.
We exist in the same ecosystem as that work. We do not claim to have saved the species — TPWD's hatchery program did the heavy lifting and continues to. We are the kind of farm that a stocking program can call when production capacity is needed, with the recordkeeping the agency expects.
Matagorda Bay Foundation
We partner with the Matagorda Bay Foundation on a marine-wetlands nursery — growing the saltmarsh plants that go into new constructed wetlands along the Texas coast. Wetland marshes treat water and sequester carbon. The partnership is operational, not promotional.
Talking to your team
Start with a phone call.
Stocking schedules are timing-sensitive. The fastest path to a delivery window is a direct conversation. Tell us the water body, the target stocking date, the expected fingerling size, and we'll work backward from there.