Glowball, there's been nothing to show that domoic acid has anything to do with population or pollution, its a natural marine toxin. A single sample from Kalaloch came up barely above the federal threshold for safe consumption. The state had to keep it closed. My bet is that the next tests will show those clams are fine and Kalaloch beaches will open in February. Ironhead, you were pushing it walking around with more than your limit. You should have kept each limit in a separate container and kept each person claiming that limit with the container. Not saying you did anything wrong, but those fish cops see so many jerks intentionally and blatantly overlimiting they tend to get suspicious. A frend of mine is a former state shellfish biologist for the coast, and you should hear the stories he tells about all the outrageous busts theye made on the razor clam beaches.