Florida fish and wildlife police are searching for whoever harvested almost 300 queen conchs in the Florida Keys. It is illegal to harvest the federally protected mollusks.

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission police are looking for whoever illegally harvested nearly 300 queen conchs in the Keys this week.

Only oysters of the Ostreidae family can make pearls, but many other types of mollusks can produce these gems, such as abalone and paua (New Zealand abalone), conchs, freshwater mussels, pen ...

Ricky Moore forages NC shellfish with Ana Shellem, then cooks a Caribbean-inspired feast.