I watch all the talk specially during that time with great interest. Sadly many people lost many clams. Luckly I lost none. That time all my clams were shipped right from the Marshall Island farm to me. Therefore bypassing the whole LA area! I also think that maybe a general sense the area is a huge meat market. If several hundred (thousand) clams are brought into LA everyone buys them there and then resells them all over the world. One of the reason I really want to go to LA is to see the different systems. The old saying can one bad apple spoil the bunch??? To me it appear so.
Jim