Somethings Fishy with property rights

Rancher David Creveling of Twisp Washington is fighting the State for his property rights. He became furious when Washington State Fish and Wildlife agents showed up at his ranch in 2003 and proceeded to remove 125 steel head, salmon, cutthroat trout, and brook trout from his irrigation ditches & ditches he grew up fishing that have been in existence since 1889. David has difficulty accepting that someone can waltz on his property and remove what he feels are his fish from water that his family has had the rights to for generations. He has filed a $700 million dollar lawsuit to pay for the fish. The amount is extreme but he feels that it will take an extreme dollar figure to stop officials from treading on the rights of landowners. Imagine someone coming onto to your property and removing the game birds, deer or elk. Obviously the Fish and Wildlife Department doesn't see it his way and cite his actions of diverting water into ditches illegal. It remains to be seen who will prevail, but it does give one cause to pause, and wonder what right we really have, over the property we own. I'm Susan Allen and this is Food Forethought.