ROCKPORT, Texas (AP) — Dredging has been completed on a South Texas bayou in a years-long environmental project to remove silt and improve the water flow for fish. Cedar Bayou near Rockport reopened ...

ROCKPORT, Texas (AP) — James Fox of Rockport remembers when recreational fishermen in South Texas would flock to Cedar Bayou to catch flounder, redfish and spotted trout as they swam through the pass.

The pass north of Rockport that once separated San Jose and Matagorda islands silted in years ago, cutting off the Aransas Bay system’s connection to the Gulf of Mexico. The project is expected to ...