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....
Caddo Lake will be part of National Geographic Explorer Program, Monday, January 28, at 5pm! On the National Geographic Channel’s Explorer program, titled “Yellowstone Wolves,” one segment will be “Lake Eating Monster,” about the invasive plant, Giant Salvinia, and...
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....
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...
U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), and U.S. Representatives Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Mike Johnson (R-LA) and John Ratcliffe (R-TX) today introduced legislation to create the Caddo Lake National Heritage Area (S. 2947 and H.R. 5957). The area proposed by the Caddo...
The harsh winter this year gave Caddo Lake and it’s surrounding waterways huge relief from Salvinia this spring. There has been an estimated 80% die off of the invasive plant species! Texas Parks and Wildlife surveyed locations where significant green Salvinia...
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