SAVE ROLLOVER PASS

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Gulf Coast Fishing Spot Threatened

HOUSTON -- Anglers may be getting their last casts at one of the most favored fishing spots on the Texas Gulf Coast.

State officials are seeking a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to close Rollover Pass. That's a manmade cut across the narrowest point of the Bolivar Peninsula near Galveston.

State land officials believe the 54-year-old pass about 50 miles southeast of Houston is hastening beach erosion along the peninsula slammed by Hurricane Ike in 2008. Texas General Land Office spokesman Jim Suydam tells the Houston Chronicle the state will begin filling in the 1,600-foot-long, 200-foot-wide, five-foot-deep waterway as soon as the Corps issues a permit.

Suydam says the state plans to replace the pass with a fishing pier.

[Tiger90]

As cool as it was to see all of the fishermen and actually fish there, it is causing bad erosion.  Well before Ike you could see the currents etc on the satellite pictures and see the beach sediment going into the bay area.  Nobody can deny the beaches were larger 25-30 years ago.

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As cool as it was to see all of the fishermen and actually fish there, it is causing bad erosion.  Well before Ike you could see the currents etc on the satellite pictures and see the beach sediment going into the bay area.  Nobody can deny the beaches were larger 25-30 years ago.
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That is the way I look at it. I can't see doing all the damage that it causes in the name of helping a very few fishermen.