PWD executive director David Yoskowitz, Ph.D (left) and other dignitaries were all smiles along the Texas Gulf Coast on Wednesday as "Billie the Billionth" was released into Christmas Bay near Freeport. The one-inch redfish fingerling represented the one billionth saltwater game fish fingerling (including redfish, speckled trout, and flounder fingerlings) to be released into Lone Star State coastal waters over the past four decades. Photo courtesy of and copyrighted through Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
In some ways, it was the final shot fired in a piscatorial war that began along the Texas Gulf Coast a half century ago. And…
