Gary Glick, President of Friends of the RGV Reef

On this episode of the American Shoreline Podcast, Peter and Tyler sit down with Gary Glick, President of Friends of the RGV Reef, a non-profit that is building the first "industrial scale" nursery reef in the Gulf of Mexico.  With the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department,  Friends has established a 1,650 acre artificial reef site about 12 miles off of South Padre Island and new reef materials are being added every year. The goal is to recreate the low-relief reef structures that have been scrapped away over time to benefit  Red Snapper and other commercial and recreational species.  The RGV reef is the only one off the Texas coast being built with "graduated habitat stepping stones" of increasingly complex and taller reef structure designed to support fish species through their life cycles.  Scientists estimate that the reef has helped 240,000  juvenile snapper reach adult stage from 2017 to 2019.  Meet Gary Glick, who has lead the charge on this episode of ASP.