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 ...

KEY WEST, Fla. — A 25-year-old woman in the Florida Keys is accused of illegally harvesting live queen conch after investigators said photos were posted to social media. Monroe County jail records ...

This man’s conch salad plans went awry. A Florida Keys man was sentenced to 10 days in the county jail for taking seven queen conch from the ocean in 2018. Walter Scott Moody, 69, of Big Pine Key, ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — A Texas woman has been charged with stealing dozens of Queen Conch with the help of several children. Wildlife officials said an officer spotted Diana Candelario Fiscal-Gonzalez ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...