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

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

Three highly-publicized cases had the attention of Keys law enforcement agencies in the week following Independence Day.

Florida’s citrus industry has been impacted by a perfect storm of impacts with production levels not seen since before World ...

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 ...

A woman was caught with five queen conchs with live animals still inside, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife conservation.

But shallow water conchs appear to have a serious problem of sexual dysfunction. Since 1999, Delgado and other scientists have noticed something strange about the queen conch nearest to shore.

That heft makes queen conchs easy to spot and catch—so easy that overharvesting for their meat and shells has collapsed populations throughout their habitat in the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.

KEY WEST, Fla. (WFLA) — An investigation is underway into a marine resource violation after 291 queen conch were illegally ...

Burley David Smith, 67, was arrested Friday by state fish and wildlife officers who say he caught and ate two queen conchs on Wisteria Island, an undeveloped island just off Key West frequented by ...

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 ...

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 ...