I ended going crabbing by Mantaloking bridge while the crabbing was bad I ended up finding these snails all along the sea wall so me being me I decided to cling to the wall and grab a few. There were so many more but I was pushing it as far as hanging off the edge of the slippery wall. They look like baby conch snails.
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Snail haul thanks to Jersey Shore!
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There is one other potential issue with locally collected snails.....swimmer's itch. We had a member years ago who collected local snails. He wondered why he always had rashes, with some requiring visits to the hospital. For the longest time he blamed palytoxins. But after one emergency room visit they finally identified it as swimmer's itch. A parasite that has part of it's life cycle in snails, which causes skin rashes in humans.
The parasite's life cycle does require a bird phase so that if quarantined for an extended period I would surmise the parasite should be gone.
The parasite's life cycle does require a bird phase so that if quarantined for an extended period I would surmise the parasite should be gone.
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