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 up ...

MARTHA’S VINEYARD — While you won’t find conch on menus at seafood joints on the Cape and Islands, in recent years it has become one of the southern New England fishing community’s most lucrative ...

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The loss of conch intensified on several fishing grounds around the country starting in the 1990s. Even Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park, established in the 1950s as the first marine protected area in the ...

Industrialized fishing fleets from other nations have overexploited some of the areas where conch grow, he said. Many Bahamian conch fishers say the poaching is coming from other nations that harvest ...

Tereha Davis tosses a conch shell off to the side as she prepares to launch her boat to go conch fishing off the coast of McLean's Town, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas, Monday, Dec. 5, 2022. Five ...