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

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This was aimed more at the Oil companies that are using the public waterways to access there private property.

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You mean the oil companies that fronted the money for equipment and time as well as paid for the access to dig these canals? What exactly is a "public canal" when a canal itself is a man made thing?

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You mean the oil companies that fronted the money for equipment and time as well as paid for the access to dig these canals? What exactly is a "public canal" when a canal Former Jets linebacker Demario Davis expected to sign with the New Orleans Saints per source. Deal is 3 years, $24 million, $18 million in guaranteed is a man made thing?

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Well when you put it like that I have know clue what a canal is

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I'm pretty sure we know each other and I respect your opinion on this

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He doesnt respect you

Please show me where I said "public canal", I said public waterway. How many of these oil companies are launching a vessel on their own property. If they had that capability why would they have built the canal to the public waterway for access?

I'll say this. I completely understand the issue from a fisherman's POV.

You can't just go and take private lands and force them to be public access. People have a lot of time and money invested in their lands.

And saying "you aren't losing any land because own the water bottom" is ridiculous. It's akin to saying that because BR flooded a few years ago you had a legal right to go and ride wherever you want


ETA: I wish from the beginning that all canals were open to all. But it's the getting into the marsh and into the ponds that becomes an issue

Ban boats entirely maybe.

I find all of this hillarious. I bet the same people here arguing about this have their deer lease locked down like a fort.

Just because it has water on it does not make it public. The law is fine like it is and yall can fish in what is available.

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And yet there can be private navigable waters.

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hmmm

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Law 8. That No One has a Right to Build a Mill or Other Edifice on a River, by Which the Navigation of Vessels may be Obstructed. No man has a right to dig a new canal, construct a new mill, house, tower, cabin, or any other building whatever, in rivers which are navigated by vessels, nor upon their banks, by which the common use of them may be obstructed. And if he does, whether the canal or edifice be newly or anciently made, if it interfere with such common use, it ought to be destroyed. For it is not just that the common good of all men generally should be sacrificed to the interest of some persons only.

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If a person legally dams a stream to create a lake, the stream bed is owned by the state; the rest of the lake bed is owned by the landowner. The public has the right to navigate the waters and take fish (both of which belong to the state) but not to use the bed and banks of the lake. For example,Diversion
Lake Club v. Heath, 86 S.W.2d 441 (Tex. 1935)

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Law 8. That No One has a Right to Build a Mill or Other Edifice on a River, by Which the Navigation of Vessels may be Obstructed. No man has a right to dig a new canal, construct a new mill, house, tower, cabin, or any other building whatever, in rivers which are navigated by vessels, nor upon their banks, by which the common use of them may be obstructed. And if he does, whether the canal or edifice be newly or anciently made, if it interfere with such common use, it ought to be destroyed. For it is not just that the common good of all men generally should be sacrificed to the interest of some persons only.

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This is good and all... if it were around when the canals were being dug

I meant Florida-never mind.