Thread: Bob's Bayou Black Marina faces closure due to canal access issue

Wow that's not good.

I don't even live near there, but that is terrible for the marina and for the hunters and fishermen who used the launch and canal.

It might be a good thing. It has outraged many across the South not only locals. This has caused the Legislature to look at a bill to open waterways connected to public water to boating. The water and fish in it are a public resource and shouldn't be allow to be controlled by an person or company. Now the land on either side is something else, no fisherman I know want to trespass on another's property. The bill will allow free passage and use of the waters and fish but lift any liability from the adjacent landowner, a reason many landowners use to lock people out.
Here is a link to the Bill that they will try to pass. We all need to voice our opinion to our legislators and ask them to vote yes on the bill. That will put us more in line with all the other states in the Nation. Please read and do our states fishermen justice.
"gene"

House Bill 391
http://www.legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDo...aspx?d=1071553

https://joinlasc.com/news/

The bill has no chance. I support the present status of the law. The resource argument is not sound. Air, deer and ducks are public resources as well.

Although a case could be made to charge deer and duck leases for exclusive access to public resources, the canal issue is somewhat different. The canals, water, and fish were not there when the property was originally bought. Property owners voluntarily removed their land and allowed public water and fish to flow over what was then their water bottom. They never owned or paid for the public resources which their exclusive actions caused to flow over their water bottom. In addition, most of these landowners are public companies involved in exploration and production. Most, if not all, of the costs associated with digging the canals are carried as cost of goods sold which is one component of the price of the end product paid for by consumers. What we have is public companies claiming ownership, with the approval of our politicians, of public resources in canals financed by the public. We only want access to the ends of the canals that contain public water and fish.

Your statement that the bill will not pass is probably correct but not for the right reason. Politicians yield to money long before they yield to greater good or doing the right thing. If the bill does not pass, the cost of the water and fish should be calculated and claimed by the state as property improvements subject to additional taxes due retroactively from the year of the legislature assumed the right to determine which stakeholders have exclusive rights to public resources by giving those resources to private landowners.

Now ya talking, well said.


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I can't wait to see the bills sent out for the air and deer.

That will come after we get a responsible budget that addresses the greater good instead of special interests and doesn't contain any pork - shouldn't be too long.