> I am looking for some information about collecting in New Zealand. Is there
> anyone who has collected there? Where are good beaches to collect. Is
there a
> New Zealand shell-club??
If you are in Wellington, go to the fishing pier in the middle of town and
look at the decks of the boats. I chatted with one or two fishermen there
and got several Calliostoma (Maurea) tigris, some odd Muricids and two
Astrea heliotropium from the deck trash.