ANEP: About Estuaries - Coastal Bend and Bays

About Estuaries:
Insights on the NEPs - Coastal Bend and Bays
(Corpus Christi)

The CBBEP has identified 50 action plans aimed at protecting and restoring the health and productivity of the bays and estuaries while supporting continued economic growth and public use of the bays.
The goals of the program focus on six areas: human uses; maritime commerce and dredging; habitat and living resources; water and sediment quality; freshwater resources; and public education and outreach.

Using a collaborative, consensus-building process, the program is working on:

Assisting small cities by providing planning and technical assistance in the area of stormwater management.

Stablizing the shoreline and creating a vegetated shoreline habitat by planting grass to protect public and private land, historical sites, and adjacent marshes against further losses due to shoreline retreat.

Maintaining healthy populations of colonial waterbirds with specific emphasis on those species showing a population decline.

The Bay Ambassador Program. A youth leadership program that provides in-depth training in coastal issues, management strategies, wildlife and fisheries management and other related topics. They also serve as peer role models instructing other youths, and serve as spokespersons promoting environmental stewardship.

The CBBEP is also proud of its accomplishments. The CBBEP partnered with the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission and a local petroleum company to administer $1.5 million in Supplemental Environmental Project Funds to be used for habitat acquisition and reef/rookery island construction and restoration.

For more information: (regarding the) CBBEP:

Call (361) 885-6202

Write us at: 1305 N. Shoreline Blvd., Suite 205, Corpus Christi, Texas, 78401

Please visit our website at http://www.cbbep.org