The shellfish appears prominently at the top of the national coat of arms and conch is widely recognized as the national dish. Conch shells and symbols of the shellfish are everywhere: A giant statue ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. FREEPORT, Bahamas (AP) — Tereha Davis, whose ...

Small conch shells serve as game pieces on a checkers board as a young girl sits on a swing at a restaurant in Pelican Point, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2022. The shellfish ...

Small conch shells serve as game pieces on a checkers board as a young girl sits on a swing at a restaurant in Pelican Point, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2022. The shellfish ...

Five generations of Tereha Davis' family have fished for conch from waters around the Bahamas that teemed with the shellfish for centuries. But in recent years, Davis and conch fishers like her have ...

The demand for conch has made it difficult for the shellfish to reproduce fast enough to sustain the population, Knowles said. The problem of overfishing is worsened by the warming climate, which has ...