Ditto if the price of horseshoe crabs used for bait by eel and conch fishermen goes up to five dollars per horseshoe crab, or if a shipping crate of horseshoe crabs of unknown origin and destination appears at J.F.K. airport, or if the Zoological Survey of India expresses concern over the dwindling horseshoe-crab population in the Bay of Bengal.
They sketched squiggly seaweed and sea anemones and jellyfish with symmetrical tentacles; they sketched tiny spiralled conch shells lined up on brown boulders.
It's enlightening and at the same time it's terrible -- it assaults you with sounds, as though you'd put a conch shell up to your ear to listen to a jet engine warming up.
Things got rolling when Mr. Tesar applied butter, in an appetizer of seared skate with brown butter and pineapple, but conch fritters immediately soaked up their mint-grapefruit vinaigrette like sponges and lay sodden on the plate.
The ceremony, as Nae'ole explained, starts with the sounding of the conch shell to gather up all of the mana--or energy--from the four corners, and from our day, from our ancestors, and from our ourselves.
The pages cannot accommodate others like the queen conch, which grows up to 14 inches long.
In colonized cephalopod specimens the bryozoans grew in a direction concordant with a forward swimming animal with apex up conch position.
Women hurriedly gather up shellfish like conchs, clams and cowries, breaking open the shells to extract the meat and so keep their burdens bearable.
And pink noise, our son's favorite, sounds like the tone you'd hear were you to take up residence inside a conch shell.
Leave room fora roti, a sort of curried burrito filled with potatoes, yam and anything from conch to goat; order it "buss-up-shot -style and you'll get a plate of fillings with shredded roti skin for dipping.
