Many years ago, while driving in a remote area in Mexico, I ran
across four huts by the seashore, the living quarters of some very
poor fishermen. I stopped to ask them if they had any shells, and
they showed me several bags of exquisite Spondylus princeps with long
spines. They had caught them in their nets; and each specimen was
attached to a small, rather polished rocks. I would use the term
"pebble" for some of them. Why had they kept them? Two years earlier
someone like me showed up and asked them to keep the shells for him.
He had not been back. Lucky me!!

Emilio

>Marcus,
>
>Do you know how they collect S. princeps by net? The only thing I can
>think of is a drag net and that seems very destructive to harvest just
>the shell. Do you know if they are getting the S. princeps in their nets
>when they are dragging for other, more commercially valuable, species?
>
>Thanks,
>Ben
>
>

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