In Caribbean countries, a special permit is required to export even a single shell. In December 2021, Caribbean authorities confiscated five shells from a couple of travelers who tried to export ...

On Friday, she pleaded no contest and told a judge she wasn’t aware it was against the law to take them, the report said. She was sentenced to jail for 15 days and given 6 months probation in ...

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.

Texas tourist, Diana Fiscal-Gonzalez recently collected 40 queen conch shells during her trip to Key West, Florida. Unbeknownst to Fiscal-Gonzalez, queen conch shells containing live mollusks are ...

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 ...

A new study published in Conservation Science and Practice uncovers how breeding populations of queen conch (Aliger gigas) within a protected marine reserve, where fishing is prohibited, sustain ...