A rideshare run from the Seattle area to Hood Canal ended with citations instead of seafood, after state officers found roughly 500 oysters stashed in a parked minivan near Potlatch State Park.
According to officers with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), the group that hired the ride was harvesting oysters during an extreme low-tide weekend but failed to shuck them on the beach and blew past Washington’s possession limits. Four adults were cited and the shellfish were removed, authorities said.
WDFW Police Sgt. Jewett spotted people loading buckets of shellfish from a public beach along Highway 101, then later stopped a minivan in a nearby lot, KOMO reported. The driver told officers the oysters were not his and that he was a hired rideshare driver. The people who had gathered the oysters remained on the beach before returning to the vehicle, according to the station…