Florida wildlife officials are investigating what they say is the illegal harvest of nearly 300 queen conchs from waters off ...

The 291 empty shells of the federally protected mollusks were found at a rental house on Shoreline Road in Key Haven, a small ...

A bald patch of grass in someone’s front yard can be restored by spreading seed or strips of sod. But when seagrass in shallow ocean water gets shredded by a […] ...

Three highly-publicized cases had the attention of Keys law enforcement agencies in the week following Independence Day. Hundreds of conch harvested illegally The FWC is investigating a significant ...

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 ...

The queen of the sea, a monster mollusk that inspired its own republic in Florida but now is as likely to be found in a frying pan or a gift shop as the ocean floor, is in trouble.

Florida’s queen conch have seen their population nosedive in recent years. This experiment could help.

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.

Conch fritters and cracked conch are popular menu items in South Florida. But the queen conch served in the state is usually harvested in the Bahamas, and not caught here — or at least it ...

Tagged and measured Queen Conchs sit inside milk crates ready for transportation to deeper waters where the snails have a higher chance of successfully mating, after a dive with FWC on Monday ...

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission associate research scientist Gabriel Delgado holds a milk crate full of Queen Conchs for transportation to deeper waters where the snails have a ...