Our partnership with the Shreveport Aquarium has allowed for two paddlefish releases on the Louisiana side of Caddo Lake with another one coming up March 6th! Click the fish to learn how you can participate!
Paddlefish Restocking, Weds. Sept. 18th, approx.. 11:30am-12:15pm (we expect the USFWS trucks to arrive at 11:30am and begin acclimating the fish to the bayou water. We anticipate they will start releasing fish at noon and that it will be over by 12:15pm.) Jefferson,...
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....
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...
JIMMY WATSON, THE SHREVEPORT TIMES The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, along with other entities, recently released 27 paddlefish implanted with radio transmitters into Caddo Lake in an effort to help re-establish the threatened species into the Texas-Louisiana...
