Great discussion, I am not a biologist but I have fished Calcasieu for about 50 years. Personally, I have not seen a large deterioration of the Calcasieu lake shore line. Some losses for sure - I used to duck hunt on the island in Turners. There is a rock wall underwater near Deatonville where the lake shore used to be. I don't see the losses in the marshes because they are mostly private and I don't have access to them. What concerns me some is that Calcasieu used to be a shrimp producing machine. Opening day of shrimp season was a crazy event. All the boat launches were overflowing, boats were everywhere, it was hard to drag without dodging someone else. I really don't want to see that again but what happened to all the shrimp? Back in those days there were no weirs. It wasn't just a one year event. The lake survived many years without weirs. Some years were better than others but there were a lot more shrimp in the lake back then. Just my observations. It may be just a coincidence that shrimping deteriorated about the time that the weirs were installed. This may all be a mute point if they put a salt water barrier in the ship channel at Cameron like one option that is proposed. Just my opinion, opinions are like AHs, everyone has one and mine is more important to me than it is to anyone else. HaHa!
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