§ 7332 Clam Digging Time Restrictions

Fish and Game Code·California

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•You can't have clam-digging tools on the beach at night.
•This rule is from half an hour after sunset until half an hour before sunrise.
•If you're cleaning or fixing the beach and have permission, you can have tools at night.

Example

You want to go clam digging at night with a shovel.

If you bring a shovel to the beach at night to dig clams, you can get in trouble. But if you work for the beach and are there to clean up, it's okay.

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§ 7332 Clam Digging Time Restrictions

No instrument capable of being used to dig clams may be possessed between one-half hour after sunset and one-half hour before sunrise, on any beach of this State, except tools and implements used in the work of cleaning, repairing, or maintaining such beach when possessed by a person authorized by appropriate authority to perform such work. (Enacted by Stats. 1957, Ch. 456.)

Last verified: January 23, 2026

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instrument capable of being used to dig clams one-half hour after sunset one-half hour before sunrise authorized by appropriate authority

References

Official text at leginfo.legislature.ca.gov
California Legislature. Fish and Game Code. Section 7332.

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