MATAGORDA — Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service’s agent for coastal and marine resources in Matagorda County is Bill Balboa, according to Donnie Montemayor, AgriLife Extension district administrator in Corpus Christi. His appointment was effective March 17.
Balboa, who has decades of experience in bay system ecology and coastal fisheries, is jointly serving the Texas Sea Grant College Program and the Matagorda County Commissioners’ Court.
He comes to the post from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, where he served as the ecosystem leader for Galveston Bay from 2008 to 2014. He served in the same position for Matagorda Bay from 1997 to 2007. In that capacity, he coordinated fisheries and habitat data collection and conducted outreach to recreational and commercial fisheries, federal and state agencies and other stakeholders. He also worked as the agency’s fisheries biologist involved with the collection of data in Matagorda and Galveston bays and in the Lower Laguna Madre.
Balboa has a bachelor’s degree in invertebrate zoology from Texas State University and is currently an environmental management graduate student at the University of Houston-Clear Lake.
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