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, ...

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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 ...

New regulations have been brought about in an effort to halt an immediate threat from over-fishing to saltwater molluscs in the seas off the Suffolk coast. The Eastern Inshore Fisheries and ...

Dear Sir,I am writing to your newspaper to voice my anger and disgust at Cllr Liam Kavanagh's attacks on the local whelk fishing industry. I feel that he is being unreasonable towards us and is not ...

A NORTH Wales fishing crew was last night accused of sparking a whelk war off the Sussex coast. A NORTH Wales fishing crew was last night accused of sparking a whelk war off the Sussex coast. Police ...

A FISHERMAN was slapped with a £5,000 fine for breaching the law on whelk fishing. Sussex fishery police officers boarded Alan Bacon’s vessel BJ P950 twice in two days after catching the boat ...