Okay so obviously, the most important thing to talk about with greatshells right now is the conservation of them. If we keep hunting them the way we do, they’re going to all die out (at least, I assume they don’t just magically replenish themselves). It’s not sustainable.
But another issue I keep coming back to, how do we know all greatshells are even similar? They could be completely different for all we know!
We need to come up with a good classification scheme for all greatshells. I think a good first step for this is to get accurate drawings of all of them (and I volunteer to do this!) so we can sort them based on physiological features.
This might even help us figure out which ones we can hunt regularly, and which we need to spread out the hunting of!