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This under-the-radar Caribbean island still feels untouched—with mounds of pink conch shells and beachfront palapas

Blissfully bare, the beaches on Anegada's north shore harken back to the Caribbean of old, with untouched white sands and ...
Miami Herald

Is that a queen conch in your pants? How a mollusk found in the Keys can put you in jail

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? Florida has strictly enforced laws in place to ...
Classic FM

Archaeologists discover 6,000-year-old musical shells which are as loud as a lawnmower

Miquel López-García is an archaeologist. He’s also a professional trumpeter, performing in many styles from jazz and funk to salsa and Catalan folk music. And as a child, he told The Guardian, he ...
WLRN

In Bahamas, a struggle to save conch, and a way of life

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 the marine snails from the ...
Missoulian

Overfishing is threatening the conch, vital to the way of life in the Bahamas. Here's what it means.

Few countries are as synonymous with a seafood as the Bahamas is with conch. 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 ...
Orlando Sentinel

Overfishing of conch threatens way of life in the Bahamas

FREEPORT, Bahamas — 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 the ...
WTEN

In Bahamas, conch fishing is way of life. But for how long?

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. FREEPORT, Bahamas (AP) — Tereha Davis, whose ...