Newport Access Denied

[chuckg]

Good policy for surf folks is to pick up the trash others leave. most of us don't bring anything besides, perhaps, a water bottle and take it out, as well. When I fish the canal I make it a point to pick up after the slobs who litter with their coffee cups, cut up mono, plastic bags, etc... It doesn't take much effort, I just grumble a bit about the folks who do not repsect what dwindling access points we have and hope that they wake up.

[bttfish]

Chuck! Ur the man.. Cheer
I totally agree, we all can play a part in this too...
There are more of good decent fishing folks out there than there are these idiots.. Thank God for that.. Moma still raise us right.
I usually bring a bucket with me fishing and do pickup craps around me when I am done, since I usually do not have keeper fish to put in them..

[Swimmer]

I've picked up trash and received bull from a landowner who watched me pick it up two seconds after I was finished.

Fishing clubs should get together and go to the town offices and look at assessor's maps and find all the ROW's and then go and walk on them, whether they gave been blocked or not. Carry the map copies with you as verification. Let the homeowner prove otherwise.

[vanstaal]

I would just ike to say something about this if I may, we had a bunch of people frome RISSA @ one of our meetings and the most important things they said was if you know of a right of way it needs to be shaired with the right people such as the officals @ RISSA and they do I mean they do look into it it doesn't happen overnigh as much as we liked it to
there is a lot invloved into it . as a Rhode Islander it is in our constitution
for a right of way to shore line
Section 17. Fishery rights -- Shore privileges -- Preservation of natural resources. -- The people shall continue to enjoy and freely exercise all the rights of fishery, and the privileges of the shore, to which they have been heretofore entitled under the charter and usages of this state, including but not limited to fishing from the shore, the gathering of seaweed, leaving the shore to swim in the sea and passage along the shore; and they shall be secure in their rights to the use and enjoyment of the natural resources of the state with due regard for the preservation of their values; and it shall be the duty of the general assembly to provide for the conservation of the air, land, water, plant, animal, mineral and other natural resources of the state, and to adopt all means necessary and proper by law to protect the natural environment of the people of the state by providing adequate resource planning for the control and regulation of the use of the natural resources of the state and for the preservation, regeneration and restoration of the natural environment of the state.

[chipwood]

Have'nt been around, but swimmer hit the nail on the head. Every year the owners of this propperty have kept people out of the spot for one day out of the year. I've gone out there and had the police prevent me from accessing the spot. So that's how they prevent the place from becoming a ROW.