There was also an explosion in the number of people heading for New Zealand beaches to dig toheroa for themselves. In the 1920s, the daily limit on toheroa was 50 per person, and the shellfish could be taken for 10 months of the year. From the 1950s, as toheroa numbers dwindled, authorities still allowed an open season of two months, but reduced the individual limit to 20 per day. On one weekend in 1966, an estimated 50,000 people poured onto Ripiro Beach like a hungry whirlwind, pulling an estimated one million toheroa from its sands. ufabet1688