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 ...

With an estimated lifespan between 25 to 40 years, the queen conch (Strombus gigas) is a prized delicacy long harvested for food and is revered for its beautiful shell. Second only to the spiny ...

Second only to the spiny lobster, the queen conch is a prized delicacy long harvested for food and is revered for its beautiful shell. Conch populations have dwindled so low, creating a dire and ...

A Florida man is due in court after police said that while he was in the Keys he helped himself to two queen conch, which are illegal to harvest in the Sunshine State. Michael Ross Finch, 36, of ...

LA PAZ, Mexico— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a petition today seeking protection for the queen conch under Mexico’s Standard NOM-059, a federal law that protects at-risk species from ...

A Georgia woman was jailed Sunday after state wildlife police said she took five queen conch from the ocean in Key West. The mollusks have been illegal to keep in Florida since the 1970s. Daniela ...

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 Red Shoe ...

A new article published today in the journal Oryx examines the efficacy and perception of queen conch (Aliger gigas) conservation aquaculture – cultivating aquatic organisms to manage or replenish ...