Queen conch once blanketed Caribbean shallows in such numbers that anyone could scoop them up by the armful. Now a converted ...

By André Habet Queen conch were once so abundant that fishers in many parts of the Caribbean could wade into knee-deep waters and gather armfuls of the pink, whorled shells. Today, however, the giant ...

Edmond Coverley swims to shore while pulling a raft loaded with conch shells from his crawl, or underwater pen, to sell at a fish market, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022, in West End, Grand Bahama Island, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Today’s conch prize, however, is not the sliced white flesh heaped in the first ...

The Florida horse conch population—one of the world's largest invertebrate animals—is shrinking. Established in 1969 as the Florida state shell with a record length of two feet, it has become symbolic ...

Tereha Davis, whose family has fished for conch from waters around the Bahamas for five generations, remembers when she could walk into the water from the beach and pick up the marine snails from the ...