Good.  Simply putting Shanghai as the origin would be rather misleading as the ocean location from which it was originally collected could be very far away.

On Saturday, February 24, 2024 at 10:19:59 AM EST, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


When I lived in China, I purchased many live shells at wet markets.

Rather than saying self-collected, on my labels I wrote (for example):

       Personally collected live at:

       Tongchuan Lu Wet Market, Shanghai, China. May 17, 2013.

Giving the judge the discretion to decide if it is self-collected or not.

The shells I found on the shores, in water, or on trees, etc., were labeled as self-collected.

 

Les

 

 

 

 

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