page_title: Redfish Bay
section_title: Features
hierarchical_section_title: Redfish Bay / Features
caption_attribution_description: Using Geographic Information System tools, scientists and researchers can zoom into to an image like this to reveal fine details about the location, health, and variety of submerged aquatic vegetation in a given area. This image of Redfish Bay, Texas near Corpus Christi--part of the new Texas Coastal Bend map--shows seagrass (green), oyster reefs (pink), sand bottom (yellow), mangroves (magenta), and salt marsh (light blue). To learn more benthic maps, visit: &lt;a href="http://www.csc.noaa.gov/" rel="nofollow"&gt;NOAA Coastal Services Center&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/podcast/nov08/NOS_makingwaves_111408.mp3" rel="nofollow"&gt;New Digital Map of Near Corpus Christi&lt;/a&gt;, (&lt;a href="http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/podcast.html#mw" rel="nofollow"&gt;Making Waves audio podcast&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;a href="http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/topics/coasts/dmtools/" rel="nofollow"&gt;Coastal Decision-making Tools&lt;/a&gt; (Original source: &lt;a href="http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/images.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;National Ocean Service Image Gallery&lt;/a&gt;)
context_page_description: Redfish Bay is a southwestern extension of Aransas Bay in Texas, north of Corpus Christi Bay. It separates the cities of Aransas Pass and Ingleside from Port Aransas on Mustang Island.
context_section_description: Redfish Bay is found at N 27.9078 and W -97.11277. Overall, it is extremely shallow and contains several small islands, salt marshes, channels and shallow mudflats. The bridge from Aransas Pass to Port Aransas splits the bay into two sections.
caption: Benthic Map of Redfish Bay shows seagrass (green), oyster reefs (pink), sand bottom (yellow), mangroves (magenta), and salt marsh (light blue).
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