In a bid to slow the species’ decline by helping more conch reach reproductive age, scientists are deploying an innovative ...

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

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

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 ...

A first hatch inside a self-contained, solar-powered hatchery has opened a hopeful new chapter for one of the Caribbean’s most iconic marine species. The announcement follows the arrival of the first ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. International demand for queen conch meat and shells has led to severe overharvesting, while habitat degradation, pollution and warming waters add ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The queen conch (Lobatus gigas) sustains socio-economic and cultural livelihoods across the Caribbean and adjacent waters, yet decades of intensive harvesting have driven many populations below ...

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 ...