The queen conch, which can grow to the size of a football, is coveted for its meat and shell. Lisa Collins/Blue Planet Archive Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by ...

People can collect conch shells as long as there is no living conch in the shell. However, living queen conch and Bahama starfish are illegal to take. Clams, oysters and mussels have some ...

A mother queen conch lays half a million eggs over a day or so in a gelatinous strand that, unfurled, would stretch longer than a semitruck trailer. She camouflages the strand with sand as she ...

The queen conch is the largest molluscan gastropod of the six conch species found in the shallow seagrass beds of Florida, the Bahamas, Bermuda, the Caribbean Islands and the northern coasts of ...

To evaluate the developmental plasticity of shell morphology in the queen conch Strombus gigas, we conducted transplant experiments at five sites in the Exuma Cays, Bahamas. Juvenile conchs from a ...

A Texas tourist who collected 40 queen conchs seashells from Key West, Florida, is going to jail for 15 days. A Florida judge also sentenced Diana Fiscal-Gonzalez of Dallas to serve six months of ...

Gary Marion, attired as drag queen Sushi, hangs in an oversized replica of a women's red high heel over Duval Street, late Monday, Dec. 31, 2018, at the Bourbon St. Pub in Key West, Fla.

The queen conch is known for its pink-lipped shell. The queen conch is protected species, according to FWC. The shells may not be harvested or sold in the state, according to officers.

Queen conch larvae known as ‘veligers’ typically settle in shallower sea grass areas to develop. Photo credit: Carolyn Belak Time may be running out for the conchs of the Bahamas.

A Texas woman in 2018 was given 15 days in jail for taking 40 queen conch from the water in Key West a year before. This story was originally published June 1, 2021 at 4:30 PM.

The event features the Cap’n Scuba Memorial Conch Shell Blowing Contest and the Queen of Conch. Plus the festival will have live music, and arts and crafts for the kids.