This week, the Texas coast has seen an influx of lightning whelks washing up with the tides. Recognized as the official state shell of Texas, the lightning whelk is a fascinating marine predator ...

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A new commercial whelk fishery has been opened off Cape Breton in Eastern Nova Scotia, the Canadian Government has announced. The Canadian government has announced the opening of a new commercial ...

The opening of the first commercial whelk fishery in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia was celebrated at a ceremony on Tuesday (July 30) at Louisbourg Seafoods, reports the CBC. Mike Kelloway ...

Whelk is a type of sea snail mostly found in the Atlantic Ocean, off the Northeastern American coast. Whelks can also be found on the coast of some European countries such as the United Kingdom ...

Whelks thrive at Annaly Bay on St. Croix. The shells are hard and heavy, equaling about three-fourths of a whelk’s weight. They can be easy to identify with a heavy black or purple stripe on a white ...

A more common whelk shell to find in these spots is the channeled whelk. But in South Jersey, many of the beaches have an abundance of both knobbed and channeled whelk shells, she said.

There are more than 50 kinds of whelks around the world, and there are six varieties of whelks that can be found along the coast of Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands – Knobbed, Kiener, Lightning, ...

Just about everything about the channeled whelk, the most lucrative catch for Vineyard commercial fishermen, is elusive. Little is known about what whelk do between the time they hatch, emerging as ...

Samantha Kreisler, the Communications Specialist for the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium, holds a Channeled Whelk shell at Fort Hancock Beach in Sandy Hook while looking for seashells on Wednesday ...

Walking along the ocean shore, little treasures dot the wrack zone. Twisted into the seaweed or caught in the waves, there’s driftwood, smoothed-out rocks, perfectly worn pieces of sea glass ...