Limiting factors for queen conch (Lobatus gigas) reproduction: A simulation-based evaluation [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Queen conch are among the most economically, socially, and culturally important fishery resources in the Caribbean. Despite a multitude of fisheries management measures enacted across the region, populations are depleted and failing to recover.
Nicholas A. Farmer, Jennifer C. Doerr
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Impact of the the COVID-19 pandemic on a queen conch (Aliger gigas) fishery in The Bahamas [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 The onset of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in early 2020 led to a dramatic rise in unemployment and fears about food-security throughout the Caribbean region.
Nicholas D. Higgs
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Exploitation Drives Changes in the Population Connectivity of Queen Conch (Aliger gigas)
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 The queen conch, Aliger gigas, is an endemic and iconic marine gastropod of the Wider Caribbean region that has been harvested for thousands of years. Conch are slow-moving and require contact to mate; overfishing has reduced populations in many areas ...
Ana C. Vaz +11 more
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Genetic composition of queen conch (Lobatus gigas) population on Pedro Bank, Jamaica and its use in fisheries management. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 The queen conch fishery in Jamaica is sustained by Pedro Bank, which is the main harvesting site located approximately 80 km south-west from Kingston.
Azra Blythe-Mallett +6 more
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The queen conch mitogenome: intra- and interspecific mitogenomic variability in Strombidae and phylogenetic considerations within the Hypsogastropoda [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 Aliger gigas is an economically important and vulnerable marine species. We present a new mitogenome of A. gigas from the Mexican Caribbean and use the eight publicly available Strombidae mitogenomes to analyze intra- and interspecific variation.
Salima Machkour-M’Rabet +4 more
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Conservation Science and PracticeThe conservation and spatial management of marine species with limited adult mobility, such as queen conch, is dictated by larval connectivity. Effectively placed reserves provide larval spillover to harvested areas while replenishing their own ...
Andrew S. Kough
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Queen conch aquaculture remains a conservation symbol and is not yet a fisheries solution
OryxConservation aquaculture, defined as cultivating aquatic organisms to manage or replenish natural populations, has been advocated as a strategy to enhance fisheries production and help restore declining populations.
Andrew Kough +10 more
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Endangered Species ResearchPort Everglades is an industrial seaport in South Florida that requires periodic maintenance dredging, suspending potentially contaminated sediments laden with metals and organotins.
JN Voss, NJ Brown-Peterson, GA Delgado
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Scientia Marina, 2022 The estimation of reliable indices of abundance for sedentary stocks requires the incorporation of the underlying spatial population structure, including issues arising from the sampling design and zero inflation.
Ricardo A. Morris +2 more
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On the productivity and technical efficiency of the Puerto Rican queen conch Aliger gigas fishery
Marine and Coastal Fisheries, Volume 16, Issue 3, June 2024.This study examines the productivity and technical efficiency (TE) of diving operations that target queen conches Aliger gigas in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the largest producer of queen conches in the United States.
J. Agar, Daniel Solís
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