Posted on 05/25/2024 2:34:23 AM PDT by Sam77
A California family whose children gathered what they thought were seashells off the beach has been fined $88,000.
Charlotte Russ and her children were actually collecting clams, which California has regulations to protect.
“They thought they were collecting seashells, but they actually collected clams — 72, to be exact,” she told the outlet.
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i think you are probably right.
The only question is why the journalist wasn’t professional enough to write that the family “claimed” they were just trying to collect seashells, instead of assuming that their claim was correct.
She sell seashells until California fined her!!!
It’s a blog...
Why not post the whole thing right here?
LOL...
Obey. No Bouillabaisse
I agree. We’ve collected seashells on vacation and clam shells are not the kind you collect. Plus, we always made sure they were empty.
LOL!!!
Years ago our family was on vacation and I was standing on the beach at Pismo. I had heard stories of a fish cop who was writing a lot of citations for violations on fishing boats and pretty anything else. Anyway, I looked down and saw some bubbles. I dug in and it was a small clam. I put it back and walked away. If I had kept it I would have been fined, because the fish cop was watching me a few yards behind me.
The central coast cities like Cayucos, Morro Bay, Avila and Pismo Beach get hundreds of millions of dollars from the central valley. We've paid our share in hotel, condominium and home rentals.
Cali is a nice place. You can knowingly pass on AIDS without telling the other person about it but 72 clams….. 88k😂
It pays to know who the local game wardens are. In Tennessee there is a Summer open season on no limit fish and deer..it’s when he’s off to Summer camp for the NG for two weeks.
Family fined $88K they’ll never pay for being stupid
Everyone knows you can’t touch anything in California even if its something trying to kill you
“...so it is possible the Valley dwellers don’t get to the beach very often and are ignorant of the rules and regs.”
My family is from Dinuba, where I was born, and raised in Visalia. I was 8 years old the first time we went and I still go every few years still. There are signs and rules about fishing, crabbing, clamming, and many other types of ways to handle the situations down there.
I saw pictures and had older folks tell me that some of the immigrants coming into the area used to float scrapping plows our beyond the breakers on boats, drop them, and drag hundreds of clams on to shore at a time using horses and old tractors. And there ae some areas every year that can’t be clammed because they need to assist in the breeding due to overclamming by closing the beech out.
Funny thing is in he old days that when we went down and got clams, we went to a little vegetable stand just south of Oceano to get the vegetables for the chowder in the early 1960’s on. We were there last year and that same stand is still open, exactly where it was, now run 3 generations later. The clam is important to the locals and they assist the visitors in legalities like max possession. If they clam out, business goes wrong.
wy69
“If I had kept it I would have been fined, because the fish cop was watching me a few yards behind me.
That clam is a mjor part of the local businesses both in use and history for tourism. Glad you put it back.
wy69
I think the fine should have been about $350 million. We MUST punish all of the MAGA types.
We took an Alaskan cruise in summer ‘23. The “Alaskan King Crab Legs” were incredibly expensive in ALASKA, the same price as here in the SF Bay Area. I got talking to a local restauranteur and he said the crab legs are coming from NORWAY. The Alaskan crab gets fished out and they have to take a multi-year break every few years to let the population get restored.
Getting Norwegian crab in Alaska?! Bah!!
$88,000 that’s a lotta clams.
These people were poaching. They were gonna have a little clam bake.
I went clamming there a few years ago. Biggest I found was 3.5” not a keeper.
Way back when, they harvested the clams for pig food. And they devastated the clam population.
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