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The Caribbean's "Conch Island" Gets Bigger Every Day

While aboard a Dream Yacht catamaran sailing around the British Virgin Islands (a place home to a number of underrated national parks) with Captain Anita Diaz Balmisa of Sail Wind Sea, I spent the day ...
Yahoo

The History Of The Conch Festival Of Turks And Caicos

Turks and Caicos turned their love of conch into an annual event. In 2004, the first Conch Festival took place in Blue Hills, a settlement in Providenciales. Since then, this special event continues ...
NBC 6 South Florida

In Bahamas, Conch Fishing Is Way of Life. But for How Long?

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 ...
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 ...
Mongabay

Queen conch dying out in the Bahamas despite marine parks

There has been a major decline in the population of protected queen conchs in the Bahamas’ Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park over the last 20 years. The most recent survey found predominantly older queen ...
Miami Herald

Ancient shells — found in American West — may have been used as trumpets, study says

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 of ...