You might want to check near the river mouths right now - with all the
rains they've had down there, there might be some mass mortality
episodes going on. I was just down there last week, looking out in the
tide just a few hundred yards south of the mouth of the Ventura and
noticed some dead starfish.

One of my favorite shell collecting spots down in the Ventura area is
actually a Pleistocene fossil locality. The fauna is very similar to
what occurs in the deeper water offshore, and includes several different
gastropods (including cones), and some bivalves. To get there, head N.
from Ventura on 101. You will eventually pass a small town called La
Conchita. Go past that, and then take the next exit (the first
Carpenteria exit). Park off the freeway just off the exit, and then hike
back down the ramp, or higher up on a cut terrace, and you will find
shells. Thousands of them. With the recent rains collecting should be
incredible. Let me know how it goes.
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