Less than 1 percent will survive to grow into the Caribbean’s favorite marine snail, with the glossy pink shell and sweet meat eaten across the 26 countries in its range. A queen conch shell can ...

Also, killing, mutilating or removing a living queen conch from a shell is prohibited, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission notes. Fiscal-Gonzalez was arrested by an officer ...

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 ...

The queen conch is a large gastropod mollusk characterised by a hard external spiral-shaped shell with blunt spikes. The shell has a glossy pink or orange interior and a flared aperture.

Conch fritter fans, rejoice: After a yearlong review, the National Marine Fisheries Service has decided not to list the queen conch under ... but also for its pretty shell that is made into ...

Previous efforts to culture queen conch pearls were unsuccessful, probably because of the animal's sensitivity to traditional pearl seeding techniques and its complex shell. The spiral shape of ...

More information: Andrew Kough et al, Queen conch aquaculture remains a conservation symbol and is not yet a fisheries ...

But new research finds that the queen conch (Strombus gigas), economically important as food and for its decorative shell, is facing unprecedented fishing pressure throughout its Caribbean range.

July 1 st marked the start of the closed season for the queen conch, a large marine snail that is highly valued both for its meat and its shell. Over the next two months, it is illegal to capture ...

Fortunately, the queen ... conch, the first thing that comes to mind is Lord of the Flies. In William Golding’s allegory on modern civilization, boys marooned on a tropical island use a conch ...