I agree with Ms Wall. My limited experience has been that many of the folks who decry shell collecting are also those who are in favor of activities that lead to beach development, dredging, and loss of mollusk habitat, to say nothing of the "beach Zambonies" that rake the beaches here in the NE clean each night to look like sandy putting greens.
Bob Fales
Edison, NJ
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> On Jan 21, 2014, at 2:12 PM, Vicky Wall <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I don't have access to data, but I think it would be safe to say that the collecting of seashells is not near the environmental problem as uninformed people make it out to be. The anti-collecting folks need to be more concerned with water pollution, loss of habitat, beach development and offshore destruction (especially to coral reefs) that comes with the building of channels and cruise-line piers.
> Vicky Wall
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> From: "Fred Schueler" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 10:21:35 AM
> Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] Shells & tourists!
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>> On 1/20/2014 12:41 PM, Erick Staal wrote:
>> After reading this account, I think that stopping the cleaning of
>> beaches would be far more effective than introducing collecting bans, etc.
>
> * look at the update section of
> karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.ca/2012/11/0-false-18-pt-18-pt-0-0-false-false.html
> - on our northern freshwater beaches we don't have many Molluscs living
> in the active beach, but there's lots of herps and Birds that depend on
> washed up material and its Insect occupants, and on this beach, before
> it was destroyed by grooming, I'd been finding Unionid shells that
> presumably indicated survival of offshore populations persisting in the
> face of Dreissena...
>
> fred.
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