As a girl collecting and trading sea shells with other kids was a lot of fun. Gradually I learned that a proper shell collection is not just full of shells you've IDENTIFIED but also information on when and where they were found.
If you went to any beach resort you could buy bags of sea shells. Most of these shells were dredged from the sea.
Those were the days when people were not at all concerned about ocean ecology, under sea life, or the massive floating sea of plastic in the Pacific ocean. (If you want to read more about the Sea of Plastic in this Google Blogger, use the search engine to bring up older posts!)
Once I started collecting shells I learned that dredging for shells was the way that many collectors got their specimens - and of course the animal that lived in the shell was killed. There were instructions on how to kill it, and how to remove it's dead remains from the shell so it wouldn't smell.
These days I don't believe in collecting sea shells unless you find one already dead and washed up on the beach.
I believe we need to leave sea life where it belongs, in it's own ocean environment.
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