- NARRATOR: It's time to feed the fish.
[splashing]
- WORKER: You don't want to stick your hand in there.
- NARRATOR: These hungry red drum and seatrout
are at Sea Center Texas in Lake Jackson.
Located on 75 acres, the fish hatchery raises
red drum, seatrout, and southern flounder,
stocking between 10 to 16 million fish into
Texas bays each year.
[acoustic music]
- Stock enhancement is not just putting fish out there
for people to catch.
It is the idea of making our naturally occurring population
of game fish more robust.
- NARRATOR: Sea Center Texas also features an aquarium,
nature trail and fishing events.
It's open to the public and it's always free.
- Pond 5 probably has the same issue going on.
- NARRATOR: It's 7 am and hatchery staff are preparing
for a day of raising fish.
Biologist Jeff Bayer starts his day in the baby making room.
- JEFF: We're going to start our day collecting eggs
from a spotted seatrout spawn.
And those floating eggs will come out of the tank
and into an egg collector.
And we see that the eggs have started to float so we know
these are good eggs, these are fertilized eggs.
- NARRATOR: Now it's time for an egg count.
- JEFF: 1,700 trout eggs fit into one milliliter of water.
So today we have 102,000 fertilized eggs
- NARRATOR: Next the eggs go into the incubation tank,
which is aerated with oxygen.
- JEFF: So that's the idea:
these trout are spawning in the passes, it's a little rougher.
We're replicating what happens in the bay.
- NARRATOR: After the eggs hatch, the tiny larvae go
into outside ponds to grow.
- JEFF: One of my responsibilities as a biologist,
we're going to read the ponds.
We take a lot of data here.
I can see what the oxygen has been.
I can see how many fish were stocked.
I can see what size the fish are.
We're trying to produce 400,000 fingerlings in a 1-acre pond.
- NARRATOR: For Jeff, it's personal.
[inspirational music]
- JEFF: I grew up near the Gulf coast.
My dad grew up fishing speckled trout and red drum
so I grew up doing that, too.
And by the early 80s, here I am 10-12 years old,
and even I knew I wasn't catching red drum anymore.
And I became fascinated with aquaculture.
[crickets chirp]
- NARRATOR: While most folks are still sleeping,
Jeff and his crew are collecting seatrout fingerlings
to stock in the bay.
- JEFF: I'm going to try to put between 6 and 10 pounds of fish
in a bucket.
So it's 150 pounds on the trailer.
- NARRATOR: By the time the rest of us are starting our day,
the young seatrout are getting ready for their new home.
[pump engine runs]
And off they go!
- JEFF: I'm going to want to release them where I see some
grass over there or some oyster shell, somewhere these
little guys can hide.
- NARRATOR: As often happens, a curious onlooker stops by.
- And you figure these will be two years these will be legal.
- Well that's great.
That's money well spent.
- JEFF: Thank you!
We appreciate you!
This is why we do it.
- NARRATOR: Meanwhile, thousands of tiny trout now have
a new home in the bay.
- All done.
200,000 West Matagorda trout released alive and healthy.
- NARRATOR: But how many of those trout will make it
to adulthood?
If seatrout have the same results as red drum,
the outlook is promising.
- He was just pop, pop...
- NARRATOR: A study with Texas A&M showed about
10 to 21 percent of red drum caught
were hatchery-raised fish.
- It's really cool when you pull up to a red light
and you got that trailer behind the truck and you hear honk
and you turn over and here's a guy in his Saltwater Life hat
and he's giving you a big one of these.
And it's very rewarding, very rewarding.
- NARRATOR: This project was funded in part by a grant
from the Sport Fish Restoration Program.
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4-Year-Old Lost Child 'Kimber' Looking For Parents : Plano, Texas (Family Found) - Duration: 1:19.
Hi, I'm Heathcliff and this is Lions Ground.
Plano Police ask for help.
They are searching for the parents of this girl, a 4-year-old girl was found today by
Plano residents, Texas.
The name of this girl is Kimber, according to the police.
Plano residents found Kimber only between Legacy Drive and Chase Oaks Boulevard.
"Legacy is a busy road.
There are a lot of apartments and businesses in this area," said Plano Police Officer
David Tilley.
"It's not uncommon for children to wander out of the home while the parents are sleeping,"
said Officer Tilley.
"When they wake up, they will typically call us.
That's what we are hoping happens here."
Do you know this girl, call the Plano Police Department.
Phone number is in the video description.
Fortunately, the child is in safe hands.
Now waiting for the parents.
She was taken to a child advocacy center by Child Protective Services.
To watch more of my video click the videos on the screen.
Thank you for watching.
I'll see in the next video.
I'm Heathcliff, your host, lionsground.com
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ACLU exige a gobierno federal que libere a niña indocumentada detenida en Texas - Duration: 2:27.
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Reports: University of Texas agrees to host 2019 Crew SC games if team moves to Austin - Duration: 2:14.
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The Ones For Texas: Arlington Librarians - Duration: 2:09.
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UT/TT Poll: In Texas, majority of Republicans still support Trump, unsure of temperament - Duration: 1:10.
In Trump's case, we have asked questions about leadership and empathy and
temperament and knowledge. And a couple things that are worth observing,
the first is that there is variance. So even though you have a public that's
exceptionally polarized, where Democrats really don't like much of anything about
Donald Trump, and Republicans have really rallied around him, especially in Texas, you do
get some variance. And he scores particularly poorly on temperament.
The other thing that's kind of interesting I think here is that when you
assume the leadership role, when you become president of the United States,
usually even presidents or presidential candidates who aren't considered
exceptionally knowledgeable, they tend to rise pretty quickly on the knowledge
items, how knowledgeable the candidate or the person is. We haven't seen much
movement on knowledgeable with respect to Trump. So a lot of people doubted that
he knew very much or knew a requisite amount to be president, and those
numbers haven't come up much. I think a lot of that is just because of his
performance so far as president. It's not just polarization, it's the particulars of his
performance that haven't allowed some of those people to come on board.
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