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R: Collecting specimens
From:
Maurizio Perini <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:
Sat, 16 Jan 1999 17:05:09 +0100
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Saturday    January 16, 1999      05:01 PM
 
Dear Annette and All
 
I couldn't agree more !! I was shocked reading the message send by Don Barclay:
 
 
  """"Hello Conch-L'ers,
 
       While snorkeling around Pago Pago Harbor recently, I collected
       1,000 cypraea leucodon (Broderip, 1828).  I had originally planned
       to take them to the Paris Shell Show and sell them for about 10
       to 100 dollars each, but a friend of mine suggested that these
       shells would make an excellent study group of the species, at
       least for this particular locality.  I will probably keep one, but I was
       wondering if any of you could recommend a museum, preferably
       one in Europe, which might be interested in having the other 999?
 
       Thanks for your assistance,
       Don                                                                                """"
 
I would like to know how many  C.leucodon are now present around Pago Pago Harbor !! Because,  it's true that
most of us collect alive mollusks but it's also true that no one of us want totally destroy them !!
 
Maurizio,
Vicenza (ITALY)
____________________
Oliva Collecting & Study 
 
 
-----Messaggio originale-----
Da:     Annette & Sam [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Inviato:        sabato 16 gennaio 1999 13.07
A:      [log in to unmask]
Oggetto:        Collecting specimens
 
Dear All,
I have read with interest the posted items to ConchL and feel it is time I added my opinion.  Some time ago there was discussion on how many specimens we should take, conservation wise, how many do we leave for species survival.  Now I may be biting off more than I can chew here, but I have been disappointed to read of people collecting hundreds, and into the thousands of specimens and then telling all and sundry of their prowess over ConchL.  
Do we have a conscious or not?
The Townsville Shell Club,Australia, of which I am a member and librarian, has a shellers creed.  It has been borrowed from another shell club, but it works for us, and it is stressed to each new member of the club, and re published in the newsletter every so often.  Here it is:.........
 

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