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 shells are ... conch has come back.” Others in the Bahamas, such as ...

Conch shells ... In the Bahamas, conservationists want to learn from mistakes in the U.S., which taught the hard lesson that once conchs disappear, it’s very difficult to bring them back.

Conch’s potential demise in the Bahamas reflects the threat overfishing poses around the world to traditional foods. Such losses are among the starkest examples of how overfishing has changed… ...

FREEPORT, Bahamas (AP) — 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 ...

But in recent years, Davis, 49, and conch fishers like her have had to go […] FREEPORT, Bahamas (AP) — Tereha Davis, whose family has fished for conch from waters around the Bahamas for five ...