You went to Pismo all the time and understood told the rules and wildlife. This family is from Fresno, so it is possible the Valley dwellers don’t get to the beach very often and are ignorant of the rules and regs.
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.
“...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.
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