The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) announced several changes to hunting and fishing regulations for the 2024-2025 season.
“The big thing for hunters to know during the 2024-2025 season is we did change some regulations,” Shaun Oldenburger, TPWD Small Game Program director, said. “There was a big change for turkey hunters, not so much in the fall, but for the spring where a majority of the harvest will have mandatory reporting now.”
Each change in regulation is recommended by TPWD after the agency analyzes populations and other factors that may impact wildlife.
“Texas Parks and Wildlife Department looks at annual changes to regulations. Sometimes, we are mandated to by federal regulations,” Oldenburger said. “We follow harvest strategies and a lot of times there are regulations both liberalizations on some seasons and then also restrictions on other species on annual basis. And dates do change sometimes with some species.”
