In this Monday, May 23, 2016 photo, whelks rest in a container aboard a fishing vessel at a dock in Little Compton, R.I. The sea snails known by Italian-Americans as scungilli were once hauled from ...

Cooking a channeled whelk is not for the squeamish. However, sliced and sprinkled over a bed of linguine, it is a chewy delicacy in old-fashioned Italian eateries along the US’ east coast. The sea ...

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 ...

What is a “mermaid’s necklace”? The beach comber’s find commonly called a “mermaid’s necklace” is actually the egg case of an aquatic snail known as a whelk. In this area, whelks lay egg cases twice a ...

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 ...

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 ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. FISHERMAN CARL BERG unloads containers of whelks from a fishing vessel at a ...

LITTLE COMPTON — 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. The ...

Hari Cameron grasped the creature in his hand and reached for a beat-up old hammer. A hammer isn’t typically found in a chef's kitchen, but then again, Cameron isn ...

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 ...