TABLE 1 Queen conch Aliger gigas aquaculture featured in the media during 1 January 2013–31 May 2024. Unique articles are media pieces that we located using Meltwater Services (Meltwater News US Inc., Chicago, USA) and total placements are these articles featured in media outlets. The sum of unique articles that suggested that queen conch aquaculture can rebuild conch populations in each year was tabulated using adjectives that describe aquaculture’s effect on conch populations. Quotes are from representative articles; Supplementary Table 1 contains sources and quotes from each unique article. Reach was calculated by Meltwater Services and is the estimated number of people exposed to media outlets that placed stories.


Year 2013


2015 2016


2017 2018 2019


2021 2022


2023 20241


Unique articles


1 1 1


1 1 4


5 8


13 12 11 January–31 May 2024.


Unique articles sug- gesting aquaculture can rebuild populations


0 0 1


1 0 2


5 4


8 10 Restore (1) Restore (1) Replenish (1); Restore (1); Release (1)


Restore (3); Enhance (1); Restock (1); Release (1)


Restore (2); Rebuild (2)


Restore (8); Replenish (1); Boost (1); Release (2); Rewild (1); Restock (1); Regenerate (1); Revitalize (1)


Restore (3); Release (4); Strengthen (4); Recover (1); Augment (1)


Aquaculture’s effect (number of articles)


Quote


.. .the Caicos Conch Farm has consistently lost investors’ money for 29 years & never earned a dime of profit.


The team hopes the approach can be incorporated into aquaculture to improve yields of farmed queen conchs, helping to preserve those in the wild.


.. .an aquaculture project in the Bahamas with the goal of restoring the natural queen conch population.


The hatchery was set up as part of a program to restore queen conch populations in the region.


.. .the only conch farm in the world, is now offi- cially closed to the public


The intention is that hundreds to thousands of farmed snails will eventually be released into the Curaçao bays with seagrass to restore the [conch] population on the island


.. .to farm conch for release into the wild & for sustainable seafood production


Aquaculture can take some pressure off wild conchs – & [] its role in building a conservation ethos is significant


This [aquaculture] project is a cornerstone of our program, one that will restore conch populations in The Bahamas while also providing benefits to local communities


We are also aware of restoration efforts being car- ried out to promote population recovery (e.g. ... Queen Conch Aquaculture program)


Total placements Reach


1 1 1


1 1 6


16 28


875 18 Unknown 691,361 107,872 881 7,172 1,167,470


14,441,044 14,418,918


913,126,270 2,255,036


Queen conch aquaculture 703


Oryx, 2024, 58(6), 700–709 © The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Fauna & Flora International doi:10.1017/S0030605324001443


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