re: Bob’s Bayou Black Marina will likely close on March 1st, 2019

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I've seen complaints they are at fault, but don't know of anything that holds them legally accountable.

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They should be on the hook. Our State governement has means to hold them accountable, just not the will.

Their permits require backfilling o f the canals..... Nobody has ever enforced it.

Who's fish are they taking? Did the land owner purchase said fish or did the so called poacher take the fish his tax dollars and license purchase utilize to manage such fish? This isn't crossing someone's dry field to go fish in their pond that they spent their hard earned money own. No they want everyone else to help share the cost load but reap the rewards of having a private fishery. I say if you are going to gate it off, fine that's your property do as you wish, but don't just gate, build a levee pump the states water out and remove all the states tax payers fish out, then restock your private pond with what you want. Like another poster said above. This state is so full of greed it is slowly consuming itself.

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numerous legal challenges and demands for just compensation by landowners. 

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Compensation for the taking of what?

The inability to use logic in this area is mind boggling.

I can see that mindset, but you as the landowner still have more rights to it that joe public that can only float in and float out on occasion. You are free to built permanent structures, etc... this is no different that how it's done across other coastal states. You also still have water bottom rights and depending on what exactly you bought may have mineral rights as well.

The water and fish/game are irrelevant. This is strictly a private property rights issue.

What this bill is trying to establish is basically a right of way for all connected water. Pardon the pun, but it doesn't hold water. Think about dry ground. If your property is landlocked and you have a right of way across my property to access yours, can you stop and hunt or fish my property just because you are sitting on the right of way? The answer is still no.

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You don't see where a land owner would want to be compensated on acreage that he must pay taxes on but anyone can have access to?

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Exactly. My family owns 42 acres in the marsh in golden meadow, only about 8 are dry, guess what, we still have to pay taxes and assume liability on all 42. That is what the numbskulls don’t understand.

Same issue i have and i dont want to be compensated on it. I want to keep it.

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What this bill is trying to establish is basically a right of way for all connected water. 

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That is correct and as it should being many cases.

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Think about dry ground. 

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Only in Louisian does this mindset permeate and gets continually used as a talking point for water access.

Dry ground is not the same legally as air and water in almost every state and at the federal level.

Air and water are legally different than terra firma... in most cases/states...
and are considered public things.

Navigate any coastal waters outside of Louisiana and you'll appreciate the lack of controversy others have. This is also starting to be noticed nationally (BASS pulling out of tourneys here) and it's beginning to cost us $$$$.

Bayou Black announcing it's closure due to this issue is another example, but locally.

Not recognizing we have an uniquie legal problem here in Louisiana is akin to planting our proverbial heads in the sand. The status quo is not cutting it.