If you can find them stacked up in Bayous or canals that are considered "Navigable Waters", then you can hunt them. "Navigable waters" are, by definition, public. Kelso Bayou would be considered "Navigable waters". That being said, you shouldn't go into a place like the LNG canal with a gun and start shooting. Now that doesn't mean you can go sit in Kelso Bayou or something and shoot the ducks in the private marsh to the side of it and then walk in there and claim them. That's still trespassing. You would have to kill them on the Bayou.
Now I will say this, don't quote me on any of the above. While I did take a couple of classes that pertained to environmental laws (such as "Navigable waters"), I'm not a lawyer. But that is what I know of that. Same reason you can float the Calcasieu or Sabine River like some guys do.
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