Dear Bob:
The Blacks were out of Ft. Meyers and shrimped in season and dredged
shells at other times.  Their locality was 125 fathoms, off De Soto
Canyon, Cape San Blas, Gulf of Mexico, which is east of you, as memory
serves the one time I looked up the location in the 1970's was off Port
St. Joe region.  The numbers of spp. from that depth were few but the
shells great, and the bushels of dredging (at $35.00) were a real
bargain. . .

Alan Gettleman
Merritt Island, FL



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> Back in 1979, I obtained two specimens of Siratus beaui Fischer & Bernardi,
> 1857. They were dredged in 720 ft. of water, Gulf of Mexico off Cape San
> Blas. I no longer collect Murex and had put them aside and forgot about them.
> For some reason assumed the Cape San Blas area was off NW Florida. Believe
> the Black's were living in central or south Florida so can't imagine that
> they came up to NW Florida. Does anyone out there have shells from the
> Black's, and if so did any come from Cape San Blas and where is this
> location? At 720 ft. of water, one would have to go way out in the NW area of
> the Gulf, to reach that depth.
>
> Best Regards,
> Bob Granda
> Panama City, Florida