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SJC_Hacker
They 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
Those greedy children how dare they have fun
gamblor956
Regulations 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
At 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
But 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
Parents should have reined them in? Were they completely unaware they were hauling 72 clams off the beach?
lando2319
> 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
Judge reduced to $500 fine. Presumably the initial fine was per infraction.