Quote:
Originally Posted by Reel Screamers
We just had a long meeting on this at the Capitol. The fact is that 49 States and the Federal Government says that ebbing and flowing waters that are an arm of the sea and are open to public navigation as long as they are susceptible of supporting commerce. That is a very broad definition, by simply leasing the waterway it is conducting commerce. This argument has been going on for several years in the Atchafalaya Spillway with the crawfishermen and they have won all of their cases. One of those cases involved a previously landlocked pond that was private but the owner dug a canal that tapped the public resource and the pond became part of the public waterway.
|
The definition of commerce in this context does not mean hunting/fishing/trapping. it means trade. As in T-boy could navigate the bayou and sell his furs/crabs/redfish/trinkets. Doesn't mean he could hunt/fish/trap there.