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Sorry to beat a dead horse re Queen Conchs, but here are some quotes from a March /08 article in "Dive Training" mag.: "source of protein (conch fritters) for Caribbean nations and its shell has been used for tools, weapons, jewelry, ceremonial objects and construction material" CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL???!!! "The United States...prohibits import...(from 9 Carib. countries). Despite the bans...from some countries the United States continues to be the largest (legal) importer of queen conch". ..."maybe....skip the fritters for a few years...." Interesting--not a WORD about divers/collectors who have legitimate actual shell collections. That's probably because the damage done by divers collecting queen conchs for their own collection and not for profit is so miniscual as to probably have had no real affect at all on the queen conch populations. But for some reason, we have annointed ourselves "ambassadors of the oceans" and must set an example--for whom?