Very well said. Are young ones need to be taught love and respect for nature. The joys of walking the shores and finding those 1st few treasures from the sea, instead of always being in front of TV/DVD/video games. That is not what is destroying the populations of shell life.

---- "Samuel S. Tuttle" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> This thread could undoubtedly be used by the Town Council to get votes for local legislation to stop all shelling.  You can't walk the beach any more and pick up a specimen that is recently-dead.  In some places you can't pick it up if it's been dead for "ten million years".
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> I think believing that the individual collector makes a "dent" in the mollusk population is humorous; but deadly.  Pharmaceuticals that came from mollusks?  Curiosity that began with a kid picking up a shell?  Love of nature promulgated by holding a shell in one's hand?
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> Some of today's teachers border on teaching "worship the earth" without considering the validity of the claims presented in their materials.
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> Surely this group shouldn't support the demise of the pursuit of the thing we love, should we?  Stop collecting?  Ban or discourage shell clubs?  Teach our children to "look, but don't touch"?
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> Is your hobby/passion destroying the earth??  I don't believe it.
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