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Description: | The Queen Conch is native to the warm coastal waters of the West Indies and the tropical Atlantic. They are an important source of food for local people. Traditionally the attractive shells were also used to produce tools, cooking utensils and fish hooks. Today they are collected and sold to tourists. Fishing pressures have increased throughout the region in recent decades, and management is now needed to preserve the fishery and prevent the population from collapsing. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | beyond the North East animals natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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