Florida’s marine life attracts people from all over the world — but what happens if someone gets too comfortable with the state’s natural wonders? Florida has strictly enforced laws in place to ...

A Georgia woman was jailed Sunday after state wildlife police said she took five queen conch from the ocean in Key West. The mollusks have been illegal to keep in Florida since the 1970s. Daniela ...

Texas tourist, Diana Fiscal-Gonzalez recently collected 40 queen conch shells during her trip to Key West, Florida. Unbeknownst to Fiscal-Gonzalez, queen conch shells containing live mollusks are ...

A 30-year-old woman from Dallas, Texas, is facing more than two weeks of jail time next month after removing protected conchs from the water last summer, the Florida Keys Keynoter reports. A Florida ...

The queen conch, a marine mollusk prized for its edible meat and its glossy shell, is one of the most economically and culturally important species in the Caribbean. In the past few decades, intense ...