Many Caribbean people who have enjoyed conch fritters, a nice fresh conch salad or conch stew probably have not made the connection that this meat was harvested from a beautiful conch shell. Conch ...

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 ...

Chris Nealon spent five years as a chef on a 104-foot charter motor yacht plying the Caribbean. Docking in Grenada and the Virgin Islands, he would hear the sound of a conch shell being blown like a ...

Thirty-six feet below Troy Halstead’s workboat in the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, marine snails are digging themselves out of the mud. There are people in Hong Kong and Tokyo and New York City’s ...

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 ...