re: Gating canals in houma area

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his whole argument is based in the fact that people are so familiar with using certain areas for their recreational fishing. Pretty much all marsh is private land and if anyone wants to keep you out of 95% of it, they can. But we are so accustomed to no one caring or putting in enough effort to actually keep people out, we have several generations who feel like they have the right to the place because they've always done it.

You can 100% argue that private canals are damaging to the marsh and if you want to take that up to a state level and demand that those who created and own them pay up, that's fine. But it doesn't give you the right to use them.

The whole "no other state deals with this" argument doesn't work all that well, because name another state that has private canals like this. Most states probably won't let someone cut up the wetlands in the first place.

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