New York State is advancing a set of rules to limit the annual harvest off Long Island of sea snails known as whelk, but some fishermen say the restrictions aren’t needed. Whelk, also known as conch, ...

To modern-day beach-goers, they may not be the most flamboyant species lolling along the tide line. To the ancients, however, the lightning whelk seemed to hold a prolific prominence in everyday life ...

A new alternative bait product that will help reduce the number of horseshoe crabs harvested from the Delaware Bay was introduced on May 29. For years, commercial eel and whelk fishers have dealt with ...

LITTLE COMPTON, R.I. (AP) — Cooking a channeled whelk is not for the squeamish. But sliced and sprinkled over a bed of linguine, it's a chewy delicacy in old-fashioned Italian eateries along the East ...

The Department of Planning and Natural Resources is reminding the public that harvest and possession of whelk is prohibited until Sept. 30, after a St. Croix food truck owner posted a photo of buckets ...

Long Island lobstermen still reeling from a historic closure of Long Island Sound last fall won a victory Wednesday after a state committee declined to put new restrictions on the harvest of a vital ...

I have been a regular at the Whelk since it opened a few years back. For some bizarre reason, it is often tremendously hard to find really great seafood on our southern Connecticut coastline. When the ...

Delaware has a state bird, a state bug and a state fish. But until last year, there was no state sea shell. Then, 13-year-old Allyson Willis, a seventh-grader at Redding Middle School, came along and ...

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LITTLE COMPTON, R.I. — Cooking a channeled whelk is not for the squeamish. But sliced and sprinkled over a bed of linguine, it's a chewy delicacy in old-fashioned Italian eateries along the East Coast ...