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HOW CAN YOU HELP NATURE LOCALLY? 

Dont's: DO NOT SPREAD INVASIVE SPECIES: CLEAN-DRAIN-DRY YOUR BOAT! Look for invasive stowaways in your prop, anchor, dock lines, trailer, hull, rollers, bunks, axle, live wells, bilge, motor, prop.  Empty, drain any debris at the lake parking lot as you are leaving. ...

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Paddlefish Festival & Release

The Shreveport Aquarium hosted the first ever Paddlefish Festival on the now official, National Paddlefish Day, Saturday, March 9, 2019.  The Aquarium and the Caddo Lake Institute partnered to raise and release these prehistoric paddlefish, with support from the U.S....

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Paddlefish Release

August 14, 2018 - 3,000 paddlefish were recently released into Caddo Lake (1,500 at the State Park and 1,500 at the National Wildlife Refuge.) This is the 2nd in a series of 3 releases this month, part of the first official re-stocking of these prehistoric fish. These...

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Adopt a Paddlefish!

27,000-acre Caddo Lake – really a flooded bald cypress forest – has more diverse fish species than any other lake in the state of Texas. Paddlefish – also called Spoonbill catfish or Shovelnose catfish – are native to Big Cypress Bayou, which feeds Caddo Lake. They’ve...

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING FROM CADDO LAKE INSTITUTE!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING FROM CADDO LAKE INSTITUTE! We are so THANKFUL for YOU! Conservation still receives only 2% of philanthropic dollars overall, so as you consider your year-end giving, we hope you’ll help us leave our natural world better than we found it. Caddo Lake...

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