These are some comments that Sudsy made.

The DEP is guaranteeing us that all existing accesses will be preserved and we will have backwater access to all streets, both real and paper, that end on tidal waters as well as public parks that are on tidal waters.

They are also saying that they currently have no legal authority to force the towns to comply and they will not have that authority until this plan is passed - so in other words we are being placed in a position where we have to take the government on their word. (Speaking for myself, that is something I've never been particularly comfortable with)

In our negotiations we have promised them that if this is allowed to pass and they do not then provide everything they have promised we will cause them a political firestorm, in public protest, negative media attacks, and most important in VOTES.
There are 200,000 saltwater fishermen registered in NJ. We have expressed the opinion that we can get at least 1% of them to vote against any politician that has caused us to lose the ability to fish where and when we want to. That's 2,000 votes, and a large enough threat to be taken seriously.

One of the difficulties is that legislators from non tidal water areas feel that this issue doesn't and can't affect them. They need to realize that this isn't true.