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Old 10-02-2014, 08:20 AM   #29
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Originally Posted by dwhatty View Post
In Maine, the law is that the owner of shorefront land owns the land to the low tide mark, unless title to this intertidal zone has been separated. The State, in State waters, owns the bottom seaward of the low tide mark. The Army Corps of Engineers regulates who may set moorings in navigable waters of the State, but usually delegates that to cities and towns that have adopted harbor ordinances.

As a side note, the public has no recreational rights in the intertidal zone, only limited rights there for fishing, fowling and the taking of shellfish.
That's different than in NJ so again I'm at a loss to a final answer on all waters...

....but I still don't see it an issue for channels marked by the USCG and adjacent waters as being clearly federally sanctioned US important navigable waters and those waters should have mariner rights and priveledges that trump any state or local law.

Waters NOT adjacent to federally marked channels...have at it...pass any law you want as it seems to fall within the concepts of USA governing.
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