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, ...

Jamie Eldredge has been fishing out of Chatham since 1984. Like most fisherman he started out working on other boats, and eventually bought his own 25-foot boat, the Miss Jillian, in 1990 to go hook ...

Nick Lacasse experienced a slight hiccup while ordering whelks from his fish purveyor for this challenge. “They sent me five cases of elk,” he said. He ended up getting the whelks and returned the elk ...

A rugged and hearty soul, Bobby Sakwa of Fairhaven, a fixture at Hoppy’s Landing on the West Island Causeway, bears the character, weathered hands and ruddy face of a man who has eked out a living ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A sea snail once considered such a thriving predator that it was unlawful for fishermen to return them to the water will see new limitations on their harvest under rules being prepared by state ...

The growth of razorfish beds and oyster reefs in Adelaide's Port River is providing a nursery for species including a whelk that had been locally extinct since the ice age. The Hercules club mud whelk ...

The master of an English fishing boat has been fined £35,000 for illegal fishing in Manx waters. Dinars Lugans, of Lincoln, admitted catching undersized whelks on 22 November. The 47-year-old also had ...