The lifecycle of queen conch, in which most animals naturally perish, creates a significant barrier that aquaculture has yet ...

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 ...

ABOUT CONCH: The queen conch is an important marine species with ecological, economic and cultural significance. This animal plays a key role in marine ecosystems, grazing on algae and helping ...

A woman was caught in Key West with five queen conchs with live animals still inside on May 30, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife conservation.

In The Bahamas, queen conch is an economic and cultural keystone, but the species is in decline due to overharvest.Past research has shown that marine reserves are effective refuges for queen ...

Before 1985, fishing queen conch caused the population to crash until it was “threatened with extermination,” as newspapers wrote at the time. But that year, in light of these declines, all ...

Florida’s marine life attracts people from all over the world — but what happens if someone gets too comfortable with the state’s natural wonders?

Queen conch do an impressive amount of growing in a short time. At birth, they’re the size of a period at the end of a sentence. And by year three or so, they can be nine or ten inches long.

The state’s flamboyantly pink queen conchs are not having enough sex. Warming seas and wild swings in temperature have shut down their reproductive impulses. To help them get in the mood ...

In Florida, possession of live queen conch at any time is prohibited, according to Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation ...

The queen conch, a marine mollusk prized for its edible meat and its glossy shell, ... Each animal was returned to the sea after a small piece of tissue was removed for DNA analysis.