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I'm really curious about this story.

• poulsbohemian 8y ago
  I don't know johnwheeler's story, but I got talking to an Oregon game warden a couple weeks back. His story was that the state is handing out jail time and big fines in certain circumstances. What he described was work parties (large families, for example) coming from as far away as Seattle to pick up clams on the Columbia river. This particular type of clam is in vast numbers, but it is an invasive species. So you would think the state would be thankful to have them gone, right? What he described though is that the state is concerned about the spread to other bodies of water - so they want them left right there, rather than transported and potentially dumped somewhere else to spread. Given that these groups are collecting them for restaurant sales, I suspect that is an unlikely scenario, but there you have it. He said the biggest ticket he'd written was on the order of tens-of-thousands of dollars. So apparently this can be a hard lesson to learn.