Ogden Point, Botany Bay (no collecting) and Sombrio are marine reserves/
parks. I will post a summary of Fisheries regs for B.C. , licences required.
with some links, contact info in late Aug./ Sept. (I'm on my way to the west
coast of Vancouver Island this am).

Rick Harbo
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Nanaimo, B.C.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Grebneff" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 4:41 AM
Subject: Re: Victoria, BC/Port Angeles Area Shelling Locations


> >Dear Fellow Shellers,
> >I am wondering if any of you can recommend good shelling beaches
> >near Victoria, B.C. and/or near the Port Angeles, Washington area.
> >Thank you in advance.
> >Joellen
>
> Victoria (at least as it was in 1973):
>
> -Numero Uno is the Ogden Pt Breakwater near Beacon Hill Park. Low
> tide, look between the granite blocks. With luck you might find
> Puncturella multistriata or Cranopsis cucullata there. Diodora
> aspera, Calliostoma ligatum, rarely C. annulatum, Ocenebra lurida,
> Ceratostoma foliatum, Nucella spp, rarely Fusitriton oregonensis. Try
> not to step on the Amicula stelleri.
>
> -Margaret's Bay, Gordon Head. The rocks south of the extreme east end
> of the bay, when in sight of San Juan Island. Turritropis cancellata,
> Granulina margaritula (a colony in algal muck covering a low steep
> rock face), columbellids, Lamellaria stearnsi, Velutina sp, Ocenebra
> interfossa etc. On the strand at the east end of the beach itself:
> washup micros.
>
> -Oak Bay Marina: lie on the edge of the floats and look for gaudy
> chitons, huge Pododesmus, large Turritropis.
>
> -Gonzales Bay: in the middle is a large rock with a big tidepool in
> the upper surface. Crepidula adunca lives there.
>
> Further afield:
>
> Patricia Bay, Saanich Inlet... Polinices (Euspira) lewisii.
>
> Sombrio Beach, past Jordan River, up the W coast... broad tidal
> platform. Live Opalia borealis common; rare Epitonium tinctum & E.
> indianorum.
>
> Botany Bay, near Port Renfrew (up the west coast) - great variety,
> especially nearest the road end, where there are surge channels.
>