On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 4:53 AM, Ellen Bulger <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I saw the Dirty Jobs segment a while back and enjoyed it very much. It was
> fun, Mike Rowe is always fun, but not informative. I didn't get a hint, from
> the TV show, that there was any controversy about farming the geoducks. The
> Audubon article is different sort of thing.


Well, Panopea generosa appears to be abundant where Mike was
grovelling. The sexual innuendos were funny...

Unfortunately my collection lacks P. generosa, though I have
dead-dredged specimens of the NZ species P. smithi and several NZ
fossil species (Cretaceous, Paleocene, Oligocene and Miocene).

--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin, New Zealand
Fossil preparator
Mollusc, Toyota & VW van nut
Temporarily in Calgary, AB, Canada
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