Texas Seafood Trail

Welcome to the Texas Sea Food Trail

Texas Sea Grant’s Texas Seafood Trail is a collaborative, statewide initiative designed to celebrate and promote the rich seafood heritage of the Texas Gulf Coast while strengthening the future of the industry through sustainability. For more than 50 years, Texas Sea Grant has worked alongside fishers, processors, researchers, and coastal communities to ensure that Gulf seafood remains abundant, responsibly harvested, and economically viable for generations to come.

By joining the Texas Seafood Trail, your restaurant becomes part of a statewide effort to celebrate and promote fresh, sustainable seafood from the Texas coast and the Gulf. Membership comes with a variety of benefits designed to support your business, your staff, and your community reputation.

Our programs support the industry through science-based fisheries management, bycatch reduction research, aquaculture innovation, and education on responsible sourcing. This work helps balance the needs of coastal economies with the long-term health of marine ecosystems. Through partnerships with restaurants, seafood markets, and community organizations, we connect consumers directly to fresh, Texas-caught seafood—while also highlighting the practices that make it sustainable, from careful gear design to seasonal harvesting and habitat protection.

The Texas Seafood Trail brings these efforts to life by creating a visible, accessible platform for businesses that share this commitment. Participants on the Trail serve as ambassadors for Texas-caught seafood, offering dishes or products made from locally harvested species such as shrimp, oysters, red drum, and blue crab. In addition to connecting consumers with authentic Gulf flavors, many of the businesses and institutions involved also offer educational resources, events, or signage that inform the public about seafood seasonality, fisheries management, and environmental stewardship.

By curating this interactive map and storytelling platform, Texas Sea Grant aims to strengthen the connections between coastal economies, fishing communities, and informed consumers—ultimately building a more resilient, transparent, and sustainable seafood supply chain across Texas

Click the full screen button on the top right of the map to view in a new tab.

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SMART SEAFOODIE PLEDGE

Take the Pledge to be a #SmartSeafoodie.

As a consumer, your decisions have a big impact. By purchasing local, sustainable seafood, you support families and communities along the Gulf Coast which continue a way of life that goes back generations.

I pledge to: 

• Include seafood in my diet at least twice a week (recommended by USDA HHS Dietary Guidelines)
• Purchase locally caught seafood whenever possible
• Ask where my seafood comes from and how it was caught or check the label on the package
• Support restaurants that serve locally caught seafood
• Share the importance of sustainable seafood with family and friends