The whelk was the other seafood of the Lowcountry coast, a late winter harvest when shrimping shut down. Tommy Edwards used to pull in three or four tractor-trailer loads per year. The tough meat of ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

Do not eat white mussels and other shellfish washed up on the West Coast of the Western Cape. This is the stern warning from ...

Scientists looking for Asian whelks in Hampton Roads Monday didn’t find any, but they may have found something more ominous: the cases in which the animal lays its eggs. ”Now that we’ve got the egg ...

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 ...

A string of whelk egg cases stood out like a golden necklace on the beach among the litter of broken pieces of crabs and skate egg cases this weekend. Some of the yellow egg capsules had little round ...

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 ...