Tompkins: Marine life hit hard by cold weather | Outdoors | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Fewer fish are alive in Texas bays today than were swimming in them just a week ago.
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The siege of freezing temperatures that fell over the Texas coast Wednesday and continued into this weekend dropped water temperatures low enough and long enough to prove fatal to some of the marine life in our bays.

As early as Thursday, scattered reports of dead or cold-stunned marine life — green sea turtles, speckled trout, hardhead catfish, gray snapper, striped mullet, snook, menhaden, silversides — came from bays along the length of the Texas coast.
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Severe freezes in the 1980s killed almost 40 million inshore marine fish and devastated inshore recreational fishing for most of a decade. A record-setting freeze in December 1983, killed an estimated 20 million fish in Texas bays. A February 1989, freeze killed an estimated 11 million, and a freeze that December took another 6 million fish.