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

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

Queen conch, the key food species, is a marine snail that reaches up to a foot in length and can live for 30 years. The shells are conical with multiple protruding spines, and all parts except the ...

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

“You gotta pound that stuff,” a chef friend told me. “Like, hard.” We were talking cracked conch. It’s a ubiquitous dish in the Bahamas, something akin to fish and chips in Britain. Just better.

FREEPORT, Bahamas (AP) — Tereha Davis, whose family has fished for conch from waters around the Bahamas for five generations, remembers when she could walk into the water from the beach and pick up ...

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