They could will have been harvesting them.
Not collecting them.
“They could will have been harvesting them.”
My parents owned property with a cabin beachside at Pismo and we go almost every year to relax down there. My father and I used to walk the beach in the morning and collect clams, correct size, getting those that ended up stranded on the sand when the tide receded. If the news agency is trying to say that they went down the beach and collected 72 clams in one day, they are not telling the truth. You could walk from Shell Beach, north of Pismo, all the way past the white dunes south of the state park and not get close to that amount. They’d been doing the collect for days unless they were also clamming and had licenses. And unless they were camping on the beach, all 72 wouldn’t have been seen by the game warden together if they had them.
72 is not enough to make any real difference for them though as it might make a good amount of chowder or cocktail, but it won’t corner the market. So they were doing it for the family, and got caught in possession of too many and that has been a heavily observed law since the 1950’s. They just weren’t real bright.
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