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To follow-up on this interesting thread, I have seen the offerings of three Indonesian dealers on online auction sites peddling Cypraea, Olives, Strombus etc, along with Conus including Conus nobilis gisellelieae, and the aforementioned Cymbiola chrysostoma......if the data listed for the shells I saw is to be taken at face value, they were mostly gathered in fairly shallow water anywhere from under rocks along the shore at low tide to a few feet of water for the Olives and others. The only exceptions were the Conus nobilis subspecies and the Cymbiola, at something like 10-15 mtrs and 20-25 meters respectively "By local divers"......are the original posters of this thread certain that trawling is involved here? Not to minimize the potential impact of over-harvesting these two species by divers , but diving has different potential impacts vs trawling. Or intertidal foraging (which can also potentially diminish local populations pretty quickly). Perhaps the local folks there have just 'figured out' they have a resource that they can utilize/exploit/whatever?
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