re: How do local people feel about Troy Landry?

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How you feel about illegals, should we just let em keep pouring in because we always have?

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FL only allows private waterways if it was man made

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Absolutely no way i would mess with him. The way he manhandles 1500 lb gators shows that old man strength is real

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That's right. The State Land Office must look back at maps from 1812 to determine if a waterway or waterbody was navigable enough to float commercial boats two centuries ago. For anglers, that's problematic because there weren't exactly a whole lot of satellites sending down aerial photographs of the marsh in 1812. Cartographers back then labeled major waterbodies and thoroughfares, and everything else they referred to as "wastelands." These "wastelands" were pock-marked with lakes and ponds and sliced with bayous and trenasses, but if they weren't relevant to commerce, they weren't mapped by the cartographers. Over the years, the wastelands have been purchased by individuals and corporations, and today, much of the Louisiana coast is privately owned. That includes the tidal waters that flow through and around the marshes. In every other coastal American state, tidal waters belong to the public, and anglers are within their legal rights to go wherever the tide takes them. In Louisiana, however, courts have ruled that landowners may claim even the tidal waters adjacent to their marshes. That's because of the outfall of a case that didn't even originate in Louisiana. In Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Mississippi, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 5-3 decision that ownership of lands subject to the Public Trust Doctrine includes all tidal lands. In Louisiana, the Public Trust Doctrine states that "Louisiana claims the beds and bottoms of all navigable waters and the banks or shores of bays, arms of the sea, the Gulf of Mexico, and navigable lakes and declares the state's policy to be that these lands and water bottoms are public lands and shall be protected, administered, and conserved to best ensure full public navigation, fishery, recreation, and other interests." That would seem to have been a major victory for Louisiana's anglers, but as part of the ruling, the court said, "It has been long-established that the individual states have the authority to define the limits of lands held in public trust and to recognize private rights in such lands as they see fit." In 1992, the Louisiana Legislature surrendered what the Supreme Court ruled belonged to the citizenry by stating "... the Phillips decision neither reinvests the state, or a political subdivision thereof, with any ownership of such lands, nor does the state, or a political subdivision thereof, acquire any new ownership of such property." The Legislature's action was solidified by a U.S. Court of Appeals ruling in 1995's Dardar v. Lafourche Realty that tidelands that are not seashore or sea bottoms may be privately owned. Since then, some Louisiana landowners have staked their claims, employing local sheriff's departments to patrol their marshes, citing those who cross an unmarked line. Others have begun to charge anglers to access "their" tidal water. Those unfortunates who venture into the area without the appropriate windshield stickers on their boats are ticketed.

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Since then, some Louisiana landowners have staked their claims, employing local sheriff's departments to patrol their marshes, citing those who cross an unmarked line. Others have begun to charge anglers to access "their" tidal water. Those unfortunates who venture into the area without the appropriate windshield stickers on their boats are ticketed.

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