You can't possess freshwater mussel shells of endangered species.
From the Endangered Species Act
"Sec. 3 ( 8 ) The term “fish or wildlife” means any member of the animal kingdom, including
without limitation any mammal, fish, bird (including any migratory, nonmigratory,
or endangered bird for which protection is also afforded by treaty or other international
agreement), amphibian, reptile, mollusk, crustacean, arthropod or other invertebrate,
and includes any part, product, egg, or offspring thereof, or the dead
body or parts thereof.
Sec. 3 (19) The term “take” means to harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap,
capture, or collect, or to attempt to engage in any such conduct.
PROHIBITED ACTS Sec. 9 (B) take any such species within the United States or the territorial sea of the
United States;"
Moderators, feel free to move this post into the correct thread.
OR
If the thread was deleted, I would like to ask,
"How can anyone correct their understanding of the law if the whole thread is gone?
Edited by PhilipKukulski, 05 October 2008 - 09:58 PM.