Dear Conchlers;
        If you are worried about your PI shell fixes after yesterday's postings, please
relax again.  I have it from the mouth of Ms Consuelo Balthazar herself, of the
Ministry of Fisheries and Ocean Products, that no major changes have recently
occured in the laws regulation exports of seashells from the Philippines, which
have 20,000+ spp for us to collect (and sell:--}!).  There is a law going
through public hearings regarding "shellfish and bivalves", but it does not deal
in any substantial manner with exports of unworked seashells - so if any of you
WERE worried, please do not vex yourself further over this matter - all is well
on the Far Western (or far Eastern, depending upon which direction you are
travelling!) front, specimen-shell wise. (you still can't get Hippopus hippopus,
but this is NOT a major concern.)

Clamming up for the day in New Scotland,
Ross.