Dishes, spoons and art made from conch shells are for sale at street markets. Flags, T-shirts and hats depicting conch sell briskly to visitors. Conch shells serve as paperweights, bowls ...

Dishes, spoons and art made from conch shells are for sale at street markets. Flags, T-shirts and hats depicting conch sell briskly to visitors. Conch shells serve as paperweights, bowls ...

Perkins found a tiger stripe conch shell for sale at the Caribbean and had an idea. She brought it back to St. Andrews and with “like-tradition” started playing the conch shell, four times at ...

“They should know better.” While it’s illegal to take conch shells from Keys waters, it’s easy to find them for sale at shell shops, like this one at Mallory Square in Key West. Nancy ...

Conch shells, found buried at ancient Pueblo sites in New Mexico, were likely used as communication devices across the arid landscape. James Wainscoat via Unsplash If you were standing on the edge ...

KEY WEST — Making music with a conch (pronounced "konk") shell might seem unusual, but several dozen people tried it during the weekend's annual Conch Shell Blowing Contest in the Florida Keys.

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… ...