Dead deer found in Clear Lake

by Hayley Kappes / The Daily News
khou.com
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 9:49 AM
Updated today at 11:00 AM

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Galveston County Daily News website
KEMAH, Texas — John Blakeway often notices deer grazing in a field across from the boatyard where he works.

He said he never expected to see one floating in the water near the boat slips.

An employee on Monday told Blakeway, manager of South Texas Yacht Services, 1500 Marina Bay Drive in Kemah, that a boater had tied the body of an 8-point buck to pilings at the boat yard.

Blakeway said he called a Texas Parks and Wildlife Department game warden, who told him to dispose of the carcass in a Dumpster.

Workers at the boat yard had to use a crane to remove the animal from the water. The buck weighed about 170 pounds, said Blakeway, who hunts deer. There were no wounds on the animal.

Blakeway said he didn’t know who tied the deer to the boat slip.

It is breeding season for whitetail deer, and the animals move more frequently this time of year, Debbie Quebe with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department said.

People should call the city or county animal control to remove the body of any dead animal on land or in the water, Quebe said.

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