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Marine snails or conch in the Bahamas are at the brink of being wiped out due to overfishing. Experts believe the staple food source could cease to be commercially viable in six years.
Conch’s potential demise in the Bahamas reflects the threat overfishing poses around the world to traditional foods. Such losses are among the starkest examples of how overfishing has changed people’s lives - how they work, what they eat, how they define themselves.