Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 76 - WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES
Part VII - Fish and Other Aquatic Life
Chapter 3 - Saltwater Sport and Commercial Fishery
Section VII-305 - Closing Grand Isle Waters

A. Whereas, the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission is charged with enforcing the law; and

B. whereas, the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission in open meeting held in New Orleans, Louisiana, September 29, 1979, and acting under the authority of Act 282 of 1979, R.S 56:22 of 1950, the waters of the state of Louisiana on the south side of Grand Isle from Caminada Pass to Barataria Pass, in Jefferson Parish, from the southeast side of Caminada Bridge to the northwest side of Barataria Pass at Fort Livingston, extending from the beach side of Grand Isle to a distance of 500 feet beyond the shoreline into the Gulf of Mexico from the said Grand Isle are hereby designated as closed zones; and

C. whereas, for the purpose of preventing a public health problem or measure because of undesirable fish (such as small catfish) or other aquatic or marine life being left on the beach of Grand Isle to rot or deteriorate, the said above waters are closed to the taking of fish with saltwater netting, trawls, and seines of any type from May 1 to September 15, both dates inclusive, and beginning May 1, 1979, and each year thereafter during this period, until further action on the part of the commission.

D. Now therefore, be it resolved, that the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries properly enforce the area described.