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, ...

Do you know Georgia’s official state seashell? It’s the shell of the knobbed whelk, a large sea snail common in coastal waters along the state’s seashore. Its beautiful, spiraled shell is a familiar ...

The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment says large numbers of white mussels, whelks and other shellfish ...

The recent wash-up of dead white mussels, whelks and other shellfish on the West Coast has remained confined to St Helena Bay ...

Large numbers of dead white mussels, whelks and other shellfish have been washing ashore on the West Coast over the past 48 ...

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 ...

Officials are worried about the veined rapa whelk’s impact on native shellfish in the Chesapeake Bay. Scientists worry about the invasion of the veined rapa whelk, an Asian species first found in ...

When we hear the word whelk, large, graceful spirals quickly come to mind. But there's another group of whelks, smaller but no less lovely, bearing the whelk name. You can call them basket or dog ...