I would second that. When leaving via the Liberia airport some years
ago they were confiscating anything and everything, including bottles
and other containers of sand and little pieces of coral (like you
would find on Miami Beach).
Based on my one experience, you would be better off putting anything
you want to try to bring back in checked baggage vs hand carry, from
the POV that they were going through the hand carry bags methodically.
It was in fact so painstakingly slow with all baggage at the check in
our flight left quite late and we and many more all missed our
connections in Houston, which the airline did help out with since it
was all their SOPs (this was Delta in LIberia airport).
If you have the option you can see virtually the same flora and fauna
in Panama, and bring back shells.
On 7/2/15, John Varner <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I was there in 2013. In theory, there was NO collecting, but I came through
> the airport with a small amount of shells without incident. However I did
> not try to bring back Strombus galleatus (which seemed crazy, as the locals
> were just smashing them to bits to extract the meat), and didn't keep a few
> nice murex, which were abundant, but seemed "showy" enough to catch the eye
> of airport inspectors
>
> - John
>
> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 19:45:34 +0000
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [CONCH-L] Costa Rica
> To: [log in to unmask]
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> Does anyone have the latest rules for removing shells--land, fresh-water,
> marine, live caught, beach or... from Costa Rica? I will be there in
> February and hate to collect only to lose it all in the airport.
> Thanks,Allen [log in to unmask]
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