Closure of the Grand Bayou Boat Bay
 

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[/SIZE]Department of the Interior / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service[SIZE=3]
[/SIZE]Southwest Louisiana National Wildlife Refuge Complex[SIZE=3]
Cameron Prairie NWR[/SIZE][SIZE=3]
1428 Highway 27[/SIZE][SIZE=3]
Bell City, LA 70630[/SIZE][SIZE=3]
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For Immediate Release [/SIZE][SIZE=3]
January 31, 2012 [/SIZE][SIZE=3]

Contact: Chuck Perrodin
Public Information Director
Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority
Desk: [/SIZE][SIZE=3](225) 342-7615[/SIZE][SIZE=3]
Cell: [/SIZE][SIZE=3](225) 768-8882[/SIZE][SIZE=3]

The boat bay at Grand Bayou allowing public access to the Cameron Prairie National Wildlife Refuge will be closed until further notice beginning Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. The closure is necessary to allow fresh water from recent rains to alleviate high salinities in the Cameron Creole Watershed caused by extended drought in 2011. This action is being taken in accordance with the Cameron-Creole Water Management Plan. Lowering salinity to the target levels in the Operations Permit will facilitate recovery of marsh vegetation and help reduce land loss in the watershed.

Effective January 1, 2012 the U S Fish and Wildlife Service relinquished daily operation of the water control structures on the east side of Calcasieu Lake to the Louisiana State Office of Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority. Daily Operations and maintenance of the structures along the east side of Calcasieu Lake are now funded by the Coastal Wetlands Planning Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) as part of the Cameron Creole Maintenance (CS-04a) project. Gate operations are now performed by a contractor directed by the Louisiana State Office of Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority. [/SIZE]

Told ya this was coming.

Thank god!!!! East bank reefs may be fishable... I bet W has a hard on right now

Roger..hope the keep them closed to September so I can go castnet some skrimps

Just spit coke everywhere.

Bout time they shut em down.. they will be crying in a bit. Hang tight guys. This will get good.

:rolleyes:

Aight, I'm laughing. You about as tall as him and have the same body structure!

l m a o !

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About time!!!!!

i lived and grew up in grand lake and complained about the wiers just like everybody else. I live in raceland now and fish grand isle alot. in the last 10 years the land loss is unreal and i could only wish we had the wiers over here to help stop the land loss. although people ***** and complain they can not fish behind the wiers. you still have land between your house and the gulf. be grateful.

The land loss in grand isle is a situation that is very sad. I grew up fishing that area.

Land loss is directly due to humans influencing the flow of water and sediment. If 'we' undo what we have done since the 1930s the problem will fix itself, but unfortunately there are too many stakeholders in it to get this accomplished. You could cut three holes in the MS River levee and stop the erosion. South of Venice this year there were hundreds of acres of land BUILT due to the freshwater and sediment influx from opening the freshwater diversions. It is very simple how to fix the problem. Louisiana will soon be getting a big chunk of money towards coastal land loss. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was a horrible environmental disaster we may never know the total effects of, but it shed light on the coast and we are finally going to get some funding and start to try and slow the erosion process and perhaps stop the net land loss in the foreseeable future. Check out the Louisiana Coastal Master Plan and there are places for people to comment. It is not a magic bullet, and there are going to be some upset stakeholders, but its a start.

Yep.....just look at the wax and atchafayla outlet. Building land like crazy,river water will always be the answer to the erosion problems.

to many big money people have their hands in the pot to open the spillways. like i said i live in raceland by the water plant which is 50 miles by car from belle pass late in the year you can taste the salt water in the drinking water because they do not want to open the donaldsonville spillway which would flood peoples wharfs and docks. that is a crappy excuse for people to have to drink and bathe in salt water. not to mention to help rebuild the marsh.

This is the truth.

Closing the weirs will make more parking space at Heberts.

What's the impact on BL fishing?

Won't hurt much. They will find another secret spot.

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