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San Antonio Bay Partnership

SABP is a regional, non-profit, stakeholder-driven program for the San Antonio Bay/Guadalupe Estuary. Participation in SABP is open to anyone. (SABP, Inc.)

The purpose of the San Antonio Bay Partnership is to create and sustain a working partnership of committed stakeholders in order to protect, restore and enhance the natural resources of the San Antonio Bay/Guadalupe Estuary System for the benefit of the ecosystem and its human uses. Stakeholders currently participating in SABP activities represent a wide range of environmental, recreational and ec

onomic interests. Stakeholders come from both the area around the bay and the larger region of the San Antonio River and Guadalupe River watersheds, which provide important fresh water inflows to the estuary. SABP’s efforts to protect, restore and enhance the San Antonio Bay/Guadalupe Estuary System reflects this watershed approach. Governance: The San Antonio Bay Partnership is a non-profit organization, incorporated in Texas as The San Antonio Bay Partnership, Inc. Application has been made to the IRS for designation as a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization under federal tax law. SABP, Inc. is governed by an appointed Board of Directors. Goals:

1. Provide Opportunities for Increased Stakeholder Involvement in the Management of the San Antonio Bay/Guadalupe Estuary System
2. Maintain a Sound Ecological Environment in the San Antonio Bay/Guadalupe Estuary System
3. Enhance Human and Economic Uses of the San Antonio Bay/Guadalupe Estuary System
4. Promote Education and Outreach Activities

06/16/2026

🐢💚 Happy World Sea Turtle Day! Today, we celebrate the incredible sea turtles that call the mid-coast Texas coastal waters home and recognize the many partners, volunteers, and community members working to protect them.

The San Antonio Bay Partnership’s Mid-Coast Sea Turtle Rescue Program is dedicated to responding to stranded, injured, and cold-stunned sea turtles throughout the San Antonio Bay region. This past winter, 200 hundred cold-stunned sea turtles were recovered by our volunteers and we responded to 10 additional stranded turtles.

From coordinating rescue efforts during winter cold-stun events to assisting with transportation, response logistics, and public outreach, our team works alongside dedicated partners to give these remarkable animals a second chance.

Sea turtles play an important role in maintaining healthy marine ecosystems, and their conservation depends on all of us. Thank you to everyone who supports rescue, rehabilitation, research, and habitat protection efforts along the Texas coast.
If you encounter a stranded or injured sea turtle, contact the Texas Sea Turtle Hotline (866-887-8535, option 3).

Together, we can help ensure a brighter future for sea turtles in the San Antonio Bay system and beyond.
-Bejat McCracken

06/14/2026

🦀 Retire Your Old Crab Traps on or before Wednesday! Have old or unusable crab traps taking up space? Bring them to the Dockside Lot for our team to dismantle, crush, and recycle them. The San Antonio Bay Partnership and Dockside Bait & Tackle are collecting retired crab traps for recycling.

📍 Dockside Bait & Tackle
110 E. Washington Ave.
Seadrift, TX

📅 Drop off on or before June 17
The traps will be crushed and recycled on June 18

📖 Learn more at https://bit.ly/4a0JM3A

Thank you to the crabbers, volunteers, community members, and for helping protect our bays and the wildlife that depend on them.
-Bejat McCracken

06/08/2026

🦀 Attention Commercial and Recreational Crabbers. Do you have retired or unusable crab traps taking up space? Let us help you retire them by dropping off those traps at the Dockside Bait & Tackle Lot in Seadrift on or before Wednesday, June 17. June 18th we will disassemble, crush, and haul them off for recycling.

📍 Drop-Off Location:
110 E Washington Ave
Seadrift, Texas

📅 Deadline to Drop Off Traps:
June 17, 2026

Thank you to the crabbing community for helping protect our bays and coastal resources.
-Bejat McCracken

06/07/2026

🦀 🌊 Beneath the surface, a hidden threat remains. When the San Antonio Bay Partnership completes the 18 month large-scale benthic habitat mapping across more than 81,000 acres of the San Antonio Bay with , we’re taking the next step in launching a Ghost Trap Removal Initiative.

Using advanced sonar technology, we will identify and remove lost and abandoned crab traps hidden on the bay bottom. These traps that continue to capture marine life, damage habitat, and threaten species.

By combining detailed benthic mapping with targeted trap detection and removal, we’re working to protect the health of San Antonio Bay from the bottom up. This project would not be possible without the support of .
-Bejat McCracken

06/05/2026

🌎🌊 Happy World Environment Day! Today, we celebrate the natural resources that make the San Antonio Bay system one of Texas’ most valuable and productive coastal ecosystems. From seagrass meadows and marshes to oyster reefs, rookery islands, and open bays, these habitats support wildlife, fisheries, local economies, and the communities that call the Texas coast home.

At the San Antonio Bay Partnership, World Environment Day is a reminder that conservation is a shared responsibility. Through habitat restoration, marine debris removal, water quality initiatives, coastal education, sea turtle rescue, benthic habitat mapping, and community partnerships, we are working to ensure a healthy and resilient bay for future generations.

Protecting our environment starts with small actions and grows through collaboration. We are grateful to our volunteers, partners, supporters, and coastal communities who help make this work possible every day.

Together, we can protect, restore, and sustain the San Antonio Bay system for generations to come.
🌊🐢🦀🐟🐦
-Bejat McCracken

05/31/2026

🌊🪺 Building Habitat for the Future. The San Antonio Bay Partnership is working to advance the Little Bird Island North Rookery Island project to create new coastal bird habitat while strengthening the resilience of the San Antonio Bay system. With Anchor QEA doing the engineering work, key partners consulted are , , , , , , .

Supported by the Matagorda Bay Mitigation Trust, the project will beneficially use dredged material to create a new rookery island designed to support colonial nesting birds, enhance oyster habitat, and improve long-term coastal resilience.

As engineering and permitting move forward, SABP continues working to position this important habitat restoration project for future implementation funding.
-Bejat McCracken

05/29/2026

🌊 🌱 Exciting News for Shoalwater Bay! The San Antonio Bay Partnership recently held a kickoff meeting with agency stakeholders for a new large-scale living shoreline initiative focused on protecting and restoring Shoalwater Bay’s rapidly eroding barrier islands and vulnerable coastal habitats. Anchor QEA will gather the data and conduct studies to identify solutions.

Supported by the Matagorda Bay Mitigation Trust, this project will evaluate shoreline protection strategies to help conserve more than 1,000 acres of vulnerable seagrass habitat now exposed to increasing wave energy and sedimentation as barrier islands along Espiritu Santo Bay continue to degrade. The effort will include bathymetric and topographic mapping, coastal engineering analyses, and development of conceptual shoreline protection alternatives to strengthen long-term coastal resilience.

We look forward to collaborating with Texas Parks and Wildlife, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Port O’Connor CCA , Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program, The Matagorda Bay Foundation, FlatsWorthy, Audubon Texas and as this important Texas mid-coast conservation initiative moves forward.
- Bejat McCracken

05/24/2026

🐢 Happy World Turtle Day from the San Antonio Bay Partnership!

Right now, our local marine life faces massive threats from microplastics and industrial plastic pollution. Every piece of trash we keep out of the water gives a sea turtle a fighting chance. Here is how you can help protect our coastal neighbors today:

🚫 Cut the plastic: Switch to reusable bags, bottles, and straws.
🚮 Pack it out: Keep our beaches and boat ramps 100% litter-free.

If you find an injured or stranded sea turtle, call the Texas Sea Turtle Hotline 866-887-8535, press 3 for our mid-coast bays.

🌊 Let’s work together to ensure these ancient mariners thrive for generations to come.
-BejatMcCracken

05/23/2026

💧 🌱 Restoring Freshwater Flow to Townsend Bayou .The San Antonio Bay Partnership, in collaboration with Texas A&M AgriLife Research, International Crane Foundation and Texas Water Trade has launched a new multi-year science-based restoration project focused on improving marsh health in Townsend Bayou at Hynes Bay.

This Phase I effort will evaluate how targeted freshwater pulses may help reduce salinity stress, improve marsh vegetation, and support healthier habitat for fish, shrimp, crabs, birds, and other estuarine wildlife. The project combines field monitoring, hydrologic modeling, drone imagery, and ecological surveys to guide future restoration planning.

Led by Dr. Russell “Rusty” Feagin, this project represents an important step toward developing long-term freshwater restoration strategies for the Texas mid-coast.
-Bejat McCracken

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