Whaa!?? Ruling seems to have made boating, fishing, hunting, etc. illegal on all navigable waterways?

[episodic]

http://www.ybw.com/ibinews/newsdesk/20060814154923ibinews.html

I read this article, and I was like, "What"? Does anyone else have any information on this?

What is this Riparian law that is mentioned in the column? Would this actually get enforced or overturned? Wow - just wow.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

According to Wiki:

Under the riparian principle, all landowners whose property is adjacent to a body of water have the right to make reasonable use of it. If there is not enough water to satisfy all users, allotments are generally fixed in proportion to frontage on the water source. These rights cannot be sold or transferred other than with the adjoining land, and water cannot be transferred out of the watershed.

If the guy who wrote that article is right, then the judge went one step further and essentially expanded the "reasonable use" language to full control, effectively establishing ownership of the water to the landowners. If that's what happened then the judge effectively re-wrote the law. (Legislated from the bench) Unless of course there was no law in the first place...

My guess is this will be overturned. It just sounds like a stupid ruling.

 

[Adfaw]

Stupid law. Can't pass. I don't think so anyways. People are already fighting it in high places, I don't think it'll be long before they turn that oen down. I think there are too many people in high places that love to use the waterways to ever let it become completely devoid of recreation. Plus, it's probably just some green-peace law to conserve the water supply or something. I hope it doesn't stay long anyways... Otherwise life is going to be a lot more boring for a lot of people who live by water.

 

[episodic]

http://www.louisianasportsman.com/details.php?id=213

Another article. . .

 

[2Xtreme21]

Originally posted by: Adfaw
Stupid law. Can't pass. I don't think so anyways. People are already fighting it in high places, I don't think it'll be long before they turn that oen down. I think there are too many people in high places that love to use the waterways to ever let it become completely devoid of recreation. Plus, it's probably just some green-peace law to conserve the water supply or something. I hope it doesn't stay long anyways... Otherwise life is going to be a lot more boring for a lot of people who live by water.

It was a court ruling... it doesn't have to pass. Technically it's now illegal.

 

[Zorba]

Man, WTF was that judge smoking?

 

[WHAMPOM]

Some one is taking theirself too seriously, :moon: