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Fined $88K after kids collect 72 clams from beach thinking they were seashells
- SJC_Hacker 2y agoThey were "seashells". Just live ones. And 72? I can understand taking a souvenir or two, but thats just plain greedy even if they were seashells.
- baldr333 2y agoThose greedy children how dare they have fun
- gamblor956 2y agoRegulations aren't always just about the immediate harm. Some individual violations are harmless or relatively trivial by themselves but absolutely devastating at any sort of scale.
- generic92034 2y agoAt the same time we are scraping the sea grounds empty, killing off entire species, and about every other country is defending the "rights" of their fishing fleets to continue to do so.
- yetihehe 2y agoBut this creates value for shareholders! /s Actually all that trawling at least provides tons of food for people and typically is at least regulated to not do too much harm. Getting a lot of clams from beach for fun does not put food on table.
- SJC_Hacker 2y agoParents should have reined them in? Were they completely unaware they were hauling 72 clams off the beach?
- lando2319 2y ago> She said the whole experience taught her children and her valuable lessons about wildlife regulations. They know now at the beach don’t touch anything
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- dooglius 2y agoJudge reduced to $500 fine. Presumably the initial fine was per infraction.