Queen conch climate change projections published Tuesday in Frontiers in Marine Science find Caribbean marine protected areas ...

Only one out of every 4,000 to 10,000 juvenile conch typically survives to adulthood.

In the Florida Keys, you could land in jail for keeping undersized lobster tails or swiping protected seafood from the ocean. That’s how seriously police and prosecutors go after people who break ...

A new study published in Conservation Biology examines the behavior and distribution of queen conch (Aliger gigas) to guide conservation management for the threatened sea snail. The research, which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A close-up view of a Queen Conch shell with one of its stalked eyes peeking out from the opening.© A-Z Animals The post Inside the ...

This man’s conch salad plans went awry. A Florida Keys man was sentenced to 10 days in the county jail for taking seven queen conch from the ocean in 2018. Walter Scott Moody, 69, of Big Pine Key, ...

The queen conch, a marine mollusk prized for its edible meat and its glossy shell, is one of the most economically and culturally important species in the Caribbean. In the past few decades, intense ...

With an estimated lifespan between 25 to 40 years, the queen conch (Strombus gigas) is a prized delicacy long harvested for food and is revered for its beautiful shell. Second only to the spiny ...

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 ...

This story originally appeared in Hakai Magazine and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As the blue and white skiff cuts across the bay to Naguabo on the eastern tip of Puerto Rico, fisherman ...